Regarding the Israeli strike on October 7, the head of Hezbollah said, "It was led by Hamas; courageous decision."

 Regarding the Israeli strike on October 7, the head of Hezbollah said, "It was led by Hamas; courageous decision."

Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, said that Hamas' choice was timely, intelligent, bold, and correct.

According to Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, Hamas was the driving force behind the October 7 assault, and the decision was made entirely in secret by Palestinians. "The magnificent success of the October 7 operation was made possible by absolute secrecy and the element of surprise. In his first address since the Israel-Hamas conflict began, he said, "Operation It Flood was decided 100% Palestinian, the merger's execution was 100% Palestinian, as well as its owners hid it from everyone."

This snapshot, taken from a video acquired on November 3, shows Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah giving his first speech since the October war between Israeli forces and the Palestinian organization Hamas, from an undisclosed location in Lebanon.

He went on, "The Hamas decision was right, wise, courageous, and it came at the right time."

As hundreds crowded onto a plaza in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, to witness a broadcast address by Nasrallah, the head of the terrorist Lebanese Hezbollah party, celebratory gunfire sounded out over the city.

The address was given on the same day that the senior US official visited Israel, and one day after the worst flare-up in border confrontations between Israeli troops and Hezbollah since the war's beginning. As Israeli forces tightened their encirclement of Gaza City, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to press for safeguards for civilians in the conflict with Hamas.

During his long speech, Nasrallah said that one of the major errors Israel is now making in its conflict with Hamas in Gaza is aiming for objectives that are out of reach.

"Israel could not provide a single military victory for a whole month," claimed Nasrallah, adding that negotiations are the only way for Israel to free the captives.

Nasrallah also attributed the violence and high civilian death toll among Palestinians to the United States.

During his address, Nasrallah applauded the four-week-old Hamas offensive on southern Israel's farmland towns and military positions. The assault claimed more than 1,400 lives in Israel.

"This massive, expansive endeavor was exclusively the outcome of Palestinian strategizing and execution," Nasrallah said, implying that his force was not involved in the assault. "This operation was greatly successful because of the great secrecy."

The region has been waiting anxiously for Nasrallah's speech to see whether the Israel-Hamas dispute would turn into a regional war.

Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, has been deliberately trying to keep Israel's forces occupied along its border with Lebanon since the start of the conflict, but not to the point of starting a full-scale conflict.

As of Friday, the Israeli military said that seven of its troops and one civilian have died on the northern border. On the Lebanese side of the border, around fifty Hezbollah members, ten terrorists with associated organizations, and ten civilians—among them, a Reuters journalist—have been slain.

Israel estimates that Hezbollah possesses over 150,000 rockets and missiles, along with drones and surface-to-air and surface-to-sea missiles, pointed at Israel, making it the most imminent danger it faces from the Iran-backed Shiite terrorist group in Lebanon.

However, Hezbollah would also bear the financial costs of a full-scale confrontation; during their 34-day war with Israel in 2006, which ended in a draw, Israeli bombardment destroyed large areas of southern Lebanon, the eastern Bekaa Valley, and the southern suburbs of Beirut.

In addition to uprooting hundreds of thousands of Hezbollah followers, a new all-out conflict would inflict widespread harm as Lebanon is now experiencing a record four-year economic collapse.