The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, said on Saturday that his armed group had used new weapons and struck new targets in Israel in recent days, vowing that the southern front against its “sworn enemy” would remain active, Reuters reported.

It was the second time since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas that Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, has appeared in public since the start of the war, talking about the fight against Israel.

In his first speech earlier this month, he said there was a possibility that fighting on the Lebanese front could escalate into full-scale war.

On Saturday, Nasrallah said that there had been an “improvement” in Hezbollah’s operations on the front with Israel. “There has been a quantitative improvement in the number of operations, the size and number of targets, as well as an increase in the type of weapons,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech, News.ro reported, citing Reuters.

Rocket “Burkan”.

He announced that Hezbollah had used a missile known as a Burkan, describing it as having an explosive charge of between 300 and 500 kilograms, and confirmed that it was the first time the group had used drones with explosives.

Nasrallah said the group also struck the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona for the first time in retaliation for the killing of three girls and their grandmother in Lebanon earlier this month.

“This front will remain active,” he said.

Hezbollah has been engaged in a firefight with Israeli forces on the Lebanese-Israeli border since October 8, killing at least 70 of its fighters. Several civilians were also killed.

But the tooth-for-tooth bombings were mostly confined to the border, and Hezbollah hit mostly military targets.

The Hezbollah group, founded in 1982 by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, is the leader of an alliance of movements in the region backed by Tehran, hostile to Israel and the United States.

Nasrallah is an important voice in the regional military alliance created by Iran to counter the US and Israel. Known as the “Axis of Resistance,” it includes Iraqi Shia Muslim militias that have fired on U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq, as well as Yemen’s Houthis, who entered the conflict by firing drones at Israel. , or descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, and the Shiite spiritual garb, Nasrallah is one of the most prominent figures in the Arab world.

His speeches, recognized even by critics as a skilled orator, have long been closely watched by both allies and enemies. Enemies, including the United States, consider him a terrorist.

Israel has tightened its siege of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip since the group’s cross-border attack on October 7, which Israel says killed around 1,200 people and took more than 240 hostage in the Palestinian enclave. Health authorities in Gaza say more than 11,000 people – many of them women and children – have been killed since Israel launched an attack on the tiny coastal strip of 2.3 million people.

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