Hezbollah issued the following statement:
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
“Say, ‘Do you wait for us except one of the two good things?’ And we are waiting for you lest Allah afflict you with a punishment from Him.” Or by Our hand, so wait. Indeed, we are with you, waiting.) God the Most High, the Great,
has spoken the truth.
We mourn for our Arab and Islamic nation, we mourn for free Palestine and its great resistance and its proud people, and for the free people and the mujahideen everywhere, the great mujahideen leader and deputy head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, with a number of his fellow mujahideen, martyrs on the road to Jerusalem.
We extend our condolences from our brothers in the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, from the brave mujahideen of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, from the people of steadfast Gaza, Holy Jerusalem, the wounded West Bank, and from all factions and movements of resistance and jihad in Palestine. God Almighty has concluded the career of this great leader with the highest medals of honor. And dignity and attaining the martyrdom that he had always sought, wished for, and worked for with his Mujahideen brothers: resistance and jihad, victory or martyrdom.
The criminal enemy, which after ninety days of crime, murder and destruction, was unable to subjugate Gaza, Khan Yunis, the Jabalia camp and all the other cities, camps and proud villages, is embarking on a policy of assassination and physical liquidation of everyone who worked, planned, carried out or supported the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood operation and contributed. In defense of the oppressed people of Palestine, and today’s crime is a continuation of the crime of assassinating the leader, Sayyed Radhi al-Musawi, in another field of action and a new front of combat and support fronts, and this heinous crime will only increase the resistance of the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and Iraq in faith in their cause. just, and a firm and firm commitment and determination to continue the path of resistance and jihad until victory and liberation.
We
consider the crime of assassination of Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri and his fellow martyrs in the heart of the southern suburb of Beirut to be a serious assault on Lebanon, its people, its security, sovereignty, and resistance, and the political and security messages it contains of great symbolism and connotations, and a dangerous development in the course of the war between the enemy and the axis of resistance, and we are in Hezbollah: We affirm that this crime will never pass without response and punishment, and that our resistance to its pledge is steadfast, proud, and faithful to its principles and commitments that it has made to itself, its hand is on the trigger, and its resistors are in the highest levels of readiness and readiness, and this is a memorable day. The days that follow are beautiful patience and beautiful patience, and God is the one who helps, and victory, God Almighty willing, is very near.
Tuesday 01/02/2024 AD
19 Jumada al-Akhirah 1445 AH