Nasrallah renewed warning against Israel attacks

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah renewed his warning to the Zionist regime that if it launched a war against Lebanon, Hezbollah would change the face of the region.

He was speaking to hundreds of thousands of people marking Ashura in Beirut's southern suburb.

He added that after 18 years of resistance, Israel was driven out of most of occupied territories in the year 2000, but that was not the last of it.

"In the 2006 war, the whole world stood behind Israel to crush this resistance. We fought for 33 days without fear and then Almighty Allah granted us His victory," he added.

Nasrallah called on Arab and Islamic leaders and organizations to respond to US President George W. Bush's recent visit to the region.

"In face of Bush's visit dictations and Satanic visions which he seeks to impose on the region, Arab and Islamic government, people and organizations are called to respond with adhering to the resistance and supporting it politically, financially, militarily and in every way they can," he added.

"Bush wants to convince Arabs that Iran is their enemy and that Israel is their friend. We have to underscore the real identity of the enemy and we have to know our friend," Sayyed Nasrallah said.

The Hezbollah Secretary General said that the Palestinian people, the Gazans in particular, are making ultimate sacrifices.

"I demand that all Arab governments and people stand by the Palestinian people and the Gazans who are now facing genocide, otherwise, the Arabs would be accepting disgrace and abolishing their Arabic identity," Nasrallah said.

Sayyed Nasrallah stressed his commitment to the issue of the detainees in Israeli jails, saying that the Israelis are procrastinating because they are weak and unable to offer normal humanitarian prices.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said his resistance group had the body parts of Israeli soldiers abandoned on the battlefield.

In October, Israel handed over the bodies of two Hezbollah fighters and a prisoner in exchange for the remains of a drowned Israeli civilian, who was washed up on the Lebanese coast, and information on a missing airman.

Nasrallah in his speech to tens of thousands of supporters blasted US policy in the Middle East, saying it was misguided and only served the "cancerous entity", referring to Israel.

The crowd of men, women and children carrying yellow Hezbollah flags cheered him on as he walked by and chanted "God, protect Nasrallah," and "Death to America, Death to Israel".