Nasrallah again vows retaliation for the killing of Hamas deputy leader al-Arouri, saying Hezbollah “cannot remain silent.”

The head of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said that all of Lebanon will be exposed if the group does not respond to the killing of Hamas’s deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri this week in Beirut.

Speech in a televised speech for the second time In less than a week, Hassan Nasrallah reiterated that Hezbollah “cannot remain silent about a violation of this level.”

“This means that the entire Lebanon will be exposed, all cities, villages and personalities will be exposed,” he said on Friday.

“The murder of al-Arouri… will certainly not go without reaction and punishment,” he added.

Al-Arouri was killed in a suspected Israeli attack in a southern suburb of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold.

Nasrallah’s comments came as Lebanon lodged a complaint with the United Nations Security Council over al-Arouri’s killing, calling it the “most dangerous phase” of Israeli attacks on the country.

The complaint said Israel used six missiles in the attack that killed al-Arouri, adding that Israel was using Lebanese airspace to bomb Syria, Reuters news agency said, citing the April 4 document. January with.

It is not the first time that Nasrallah has promised retaliation. He had on Wednesday warned Israel rejected expanding its war, saying there would be “no limits” and “no rules” to its group’s fighting if Israel decided to start a war against Lebanon.

“Whoever thinks of war with us – in a word, he will regret it,” Nasrallah said.

“670 military operations”

Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan, reporting from Beirut, said Nasrallah had reiterated his promise to retaliate.

Nasrallah said that al-Arouri’s killing “will not go unanswered or unpunished” and that Hezbollah fighters “will use the right place and time and the field will respond,” Khan said.

Nasrallah also said: “We know exactly where the Israeli military positions are,” and the Israelis “are not disclosing the true number of their casualties and the destruction of their equipment,” our correspondent added.

In his remarks, the Hezbollah leader said Lebanon’s southern border with Israel was a “key part” of the war and that the group’s current operations along the border opened up a “historic opportunity” for Lebanon to liberate its Israeli-occupied land .

He added that the Islamic resistance in Iraq also has a “historic opportunity” to get rid of the US presence in that country.

Nasrallah said Hezbollah fighters had carried out about 670 military operations on the Lebanese-Israeli border, adding that the group had destroyed “a large number of Israeli vehicles and tanks.”

He also said that if the Israeli military succeeded in achieving its military objectives in Gaza, it would turn to Lebanon.

Since October 8 – a day after Israel began its war in Gaza – ongoing clashes between the Israeli army and Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanese border have resulted in the deaths of dozens of Lebanese civilians and more than 140 Hezbollah members.

Israel and armed groups in southern Lebanon, particularly Hezbollah, have frequently clashed back and forth across the border patrolled by the United Nations.