"We ask, once again, that the oppressive war against Yemen, a war in which Saudi
rulers have failed to achieve their objectives, ought to stop,” Nasrallah said
Sunday in an address to a gathering of Lebanese people mourning Ashura, the
martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shiite Imam.
He underlined that the people of Yemen have demonstrated their resolve for
resistance against aggression.
They know that their only option against the invasion is resistance and believe
that the cost of the war, though high, is less than their surrender to the
Saudis, he added.
Since March 25, 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been
carrying out airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to
restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally
of Riyadh.
Yemen’s Legal Center of Rights and Development recently announced that the Saudi
campaign has claimed the lives of over 12,000 Yemenis and left more than 20,000
others wounded.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Hezbollah chief warned that the Israeli regime
under "idiotic” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing the region into
war.
Netanyahu "is only planning for war,” Nasrallah said, adding that the Israelis
do not have "a correct assessment of where this war will lead if they ignite
it.”
He said they "do not have a correct picture about what is awaiting them if they
go to the idiocy of this war.”
Nasrallah also called on Israeli settlers to leave the occupied Palestinian
territories and return to their countries of origin as they would have neither
time nor place to escape after the beginning of an Israeli war on Lebanon and
other regional countries.
"If this war happens, the Zionist settlers will pay a heavy price, and the
entity will reach its demise,” he said.
Israel launched two wars on Lebanon in 2000 and 2006, in both of which Hezbollah
fighters inflicted heavy losses on the regime’s military. Over the past few
months, Israeli officials have threatened another war on Lebanon.
SOURCE: Tasnim News Agency