[AAWSAT.NET] Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanese Hezbollah, gave a speech on Friday afternoon during a rally commemorating the victory in the July 2006 war with Israel in which he condemned Thursday's kaboom on a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut and warned his followers against sectarian violence.After expressing his condolences to the families of the dear departed and condemning the "silence of other countries who support terrorists," Nasrallah spoke on both the 2006 victory and issues surrounding Thursday's massacre.
The Hezbollah rally came a day after a boom-mobile left at least 20 dead and over 100 injured in the Dahieh neighborhood, a Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
Hundreds of Hezbollah supporters gathered in the southern Lebanese village of Ayta, near the Israeli border, which Nasrallah said is "a symbol of its people, the resistance and deaders." At the start of his speech, he recalled how Ayta remained steadfast under heavy fire during the 2006 war.
Speaking on Thursday's kaboom, he said that only further investigations could reveal whether or not it was a suicide kaboom and declined to speculate further.
Nasrallah also revealed that he had prior information that groups he labelled "Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
st" (apostate) hoped to attack to the Dahieh area. He said those "Takfirist" groups "kill Sunnis and Shi'ites and Christians alike".
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he stressed: "Whoever says Sunnis are in charge of the bombing is speaking with an Israeli mentality. These Takfirist groups are just murderers without a religion, a nation or a cause." He called on Lebanese people to be "patient and aware" and asked his followers to send the message that no amount of bombings will bring Leb into a conflict. "Leave our differences to our politics," he said.
The speech then went on to address the perpetrators of the attack, whom he labelled "murderers."
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Nasrallah also criticized to the "deteriorating Arab media," specifically mentioning the Al-Jazeera
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and Al-Arabiya television channels. He called on people not to believe the "fabricated lies" about Syria, citing what he said were "divergent" reports from the two channels about recent events in Egypt.
Throughout the speech, Nasrallah also emphasized the need for Leb to extract its energy resources from its coast and that Israel has no say in this or in any other Lebanese affair.