Hezbollah leader to give speech on Friday for the first time since escalation with Israel

The leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, will give a speech next Friday, the first since the beginning of the intense escalation between his formation and Israel three weeks ago, and also since the outbreak of the war in Loop.

The intervention will take place on Friday at 3:00 p.m. local time (1:00 p.m. GMT) during a ceremony to “honor the martyrs who sacrificed their lives on the path to Jerusalem”Hezbollah announced this Sunday in a statement.

Since the war waged against Israel in 2006, the cleric has lived in an unknown location and has not appeared in public for years, which is why his speeches are usually broadcast on related television stations and on giant screens during events organized by the Shiite group.

Friday’s will be his first public words since the start of the Gaza war on October 7 and since the Hezbollah cross-attacks with Israeli forces began a day later across the de facto border between both countries.

The clashes on the divide have intensified over time until they have become an almost continuous exchange of missiles and bombings, which have already left 47 dead in the ranks of the Shiite formation and almost 29,000 internally displaced people on the Lebanese side alone.

Nasrallah’s silence fueled fears that Hezbollah would decide to get directly involved in the Gaza war and that Lebanon would become a second front in it, something that the Lebanese Government is trying to avoid at all costs with intense contacts at the level. domestic and international.

The armed movement has surrounded its plans with uncertainty, although many experts believe that one of its main red lines would be the beginning of a major ground offensive on the Gaza Strip that poses an imminent danger to the survival of Hamas.

Precisely, two days ago Israel announced an expansion of its ground operations in the enclave.