Israel taking out its defeat in all fronts on Lebanese civilians: Hezbollah  

Hezbollah has condemned in the strongest terms the latest Israeli massacre of civilians in various parts of Lebanon, including the capital Beirut, saying the atrocities are indicative of the regime's catastrophic failure to attain any of its objectives.

"With its blind hatred, customary criminality, and infinite brutality, all of which are part of its nature, the Zionist enemy committed a series of massacres today against civilians, and carried out dozens of brutal raids. It targeted civilian areas in the capital Beirut, the city of Saida, and the Bekaa Valley, leaving hundreds of people, including women, children and the elderly, dead and wounded," the resistance movement said in a statement released on Wednesday.

The group said such barbaric aggression, which explicitly amounts to war crimes and crimes of genocide due to targeting crowded civilian places, markets, and commercial shops during peak hours, is nothing but a desperate attempt to take revenge on civilian citizens after the failure of all attempts to break the willpower of the honorable Lebanese nation and subdue them.

"Our honorable people and the sons of the country have proven that the brutality of the aggression has only increased their steadfastness, firmness, and commitment to the choice of resistance, no matter what great sacrifices they offer," the statement read.

Hezbollah said this unbridled criminality is a clear expression of the disappointment suffered by the Tel Aviv regime after its catastrophic failure to achieve any of its goals in various fronts, and after finding itself besieged by the reality of its defeat, unable and shackled from changing the equations imposed by the steadfastness of the peoples of Iran and Lebanon.

The movement said the recent deadly Israeli attacks are an expression of the state of collapse, confusion, and disarray that the crisis-ridden Israeli regime and its defeated army are living in following painful retaliatory operations by resistance fighters.

"We confirm that the blood of the martyrs and the wounded will not go in vain, and that today's massacres, like all brutal attacks and crimes, confirm our natural and legal right to resist the occupation and respond to its aggression. They will increase our determination to resist and confront in order to restrain the enemy, defend our people and our homeland, and protect our security in the face of ongoing aggression”.

Lebanon's Civil Defense authorities said at least 254 people have lost their lives and another 1,165 sustained injuries in the fresh round of Israeli strikes across Lebanon.

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said hospitals and medical centers are full of those injured in the Israeli strikes, and in need of urgent treatment.

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