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Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah, delivers a televised speech on January 14, 2024. (Photo by Al-Manar)

The secretary-general of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says Israel has suffered "unprecedented" losses at the hands of Palestinian resistance and has failed to achieve any of its goals after 100 days of its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks in a televised speech on Sunday in commemoration of Wissam Hassan al-Tawil, a senior Hezbollah commander who was assassinated in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khirbet Selm on January 8.

Nasrallah praised Tawil as one of the commanders in the war against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Syria and stressed that he had also been one of the field commanders on the southern front since October 8, 2023, when the Lebanese resistance movement engaged in fire exchanges with the Israeli occupation regime in support of the Palestinians in Gaza.

Nasrallah hailed as "legendary" Palestinian resistance against the Israeli aggression after 100 days and said the regime had not succeeded in achieving any goals of its campaign "neither the explicit nor the implicit ones."

"One hundred days have passed and Gaza and its people remain steadfast in a legendary manner that history has never witnessed," the Hezbollah chief stated.

"The implicit goals of the Israeli war are to occupy Gaza, displace the Gazans and to turn the territory into a beach for the Israeli settlers," he added. "The Israeli enemy was neither able to eliminate the resistance in Gaza, nor able to eliminate Hamas."

‘US, Israel should fear war not us’

Underlining that the Lebanese front has been open since October, Nasrallah expressed Hezbollah’s readiness to fight and said Lebanon has no fear of war or US and Israeli threats.

"Those who should fear war and be scared of it are Israel and its settlers," Nasrallah said.

"We have been ready for war for the past 99 days and we do not fear it. We will fight with no restrictions."

Warning that the Americans must fear for their bases in Israel, Hezbollah’s leader said, "Our stance is that the Lebanese front has been for supporting and assisting Gaza and its objective is halting the aggression against Gaza. Let the aggression against Gaza stop and then talks related to Lebanon will be possible."

Israel conceals number of losses

Nasrallah said the resistance continues to inflict losses on the Israeli occupation but the regime has been keeping its real number of casualties "under wraps."

He added that the extent of the occupation’s concealment of its losses "is reflected in its failure to acknowledge the targeting of the Mount Meron base," which was targeted by the resistance in Lebanon earlier in the month as part of the initial response to the assassination of the deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, Martyr Saleh al-Arouri.

Stressing that the Lebanese resistance movement fired 62 missiles, including 40 Katyushas and 22 Kornet anti-tank guided missiles, at the base, Nasrallah said, "18 of the Kornet missiles hit it."

Pointing to the various resistance fronts supporting Palestinians in Gaza, the Hezbollah chief said the Americans and many Western countries worked over a period of 100 days to "silence, subjugate and thwart these fronts."

Nasrallah said the continuation of resistance in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq will push the Israeli regime to "accept the conditions of resistance, and this will mean the promised victory."