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'No power can disarm Hezbollah'
11/11/2007 22:44 - (SA)
Beirut - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday that no power could disarm his pro-Syrian Shi'ite militant group and that it was ready for a new conflict with Israel after last year's war.
"No one in the world can disarm Hezbollah," Nasrallah said in a speech broadcast on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television.
"The entire world is not capable of implementing the clause concerning the disarmament of the resistance in (UN Security Council) Resolution 1559," he said.
The 2004 resolution called for the dismantling and disarmament of all foreign or local militias operating in Lebanon, including Hezbollah, which says it's a legitimate resistance group against Israel.
'Achieve historic victory'
Nasrallah said: "The resistance in Lebanon has determination, will, manpower and sufficient weapons" to face Israel in a new conflict.
"The resistance is ready, day and night, to defend south Lebanon (a bastion of Hezbollah) as well as all of Lebanon... to achieve a historic victory that will change the face of the region."
Israel's war with Hezbollah, which followed Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers, resulted in the death of more than 1 200 civilians in Lebanon, a third of them children, as well as 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
It also caused massive destruction across southern Lebanon before ending with a UN-brokered ceasefire on August 14.
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