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Hezbollah reserves rights to strike back against Israeli attack

Xinhua, January 31, 2015 Adjust font size:

Hezbollah chief said on Friday that his group has the right to respond to an Israeli attack in any way or at any time it deems fit.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks in a televised speech that commemorate the deaths of six Hezbollah operatives and an Iranian general killed in an Israeli air strike in Syria earlier this month.

"The resistance no longer recognizes the rules of engagement and it has the right to respond to the enemy at any time or place," he said.

"From now on, if any member of Hezbollah is assassinated, then we will blame it on Israel," he said, adding that "we do not fear war and we will not hesitate in waging it if it is imposed on us."

He also revealed the party has began planning its retaliation, saying that they are preparing themselves for "the worst case scenario."

On Wednesday, Hezbollah attacked back to the airstrikes on with an attack against an Israeli convoy in the occupied Shebaa Farms in the South. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in the operation. Endit