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Hassan Nasrallah: Israel 'failed' in Gaza and will negotiate

The head of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday that Israel had failed to achieve its objectives in Gaza and this will force it to negotiate.

"What has the enemy achieved in 100 days, other than killing?" Hassan Nasrallah asked in a televised speech. 

"It has not achieved any real victory or semblance of victory. It has failed in achieving its declared, half-declared and implicit objectives," he added, on the 100th day of the Israel-Hamas war. 

Nasrallah's speech commemorated the death of a senior Hezbollah commander, Wissam Tawil, killed by Israel in southern Lebanon on Jan. 8.  

The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip was triggered by the group's Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.

In retaliation, Israel launched a relentless bombardment and ground offensive in Gaza which has killed at least 23,968 people, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in Gaza. 

Since the war began there have been near daily exchanges of fire across the Israel-Lebanon border between Hamas ally Hezbollah and the Israeli military.

At the same time, Yemen's Houthi rebels have attacked shipping they say is linked to Israel, in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

In Iraq and Syria, pro-Iran fighters have ramped up their attacks against American forces and others in an anti-jihadist coalition.

"If this path continues, be it in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen or Iraq, the enemy government will have no other choice but to accept the conditions of the resistance in Gaza, thereby putting an end to the aggression against Gaza and entering into negotiations," said Nasrallah.

The Hezbollah leader also denounced air strikes by the US and Britain, which on Friday hit scores of rebel targets in Yemen in response to the Houthis' attacks on shipping.

"What the Americans did in the Red Sea will harm the security of all maritime navigation," Nasrallah said.

In more than three months of violence on the Israel-Lebanon border, 190 people have been killed in Lebanon, including 141 Hezbollah fighters and more than 20 civilians, according to an AFP tally.


The head of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday that Israel had failed to achieve its objectives in Gaza and this will force it to negotiate.

"What has the enemy achieved in 100 days, other than killing?" Hassan Nasrallah asked in a televised speech. 

"It has not achieved any real victory or semblance of victory. It...