Hezbollah leader speaks out for the first time since start of Israel-Hamas war

Celebratory gunshots rang out over Beirut as thousands packed into a square in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs on Friday to watch a televised speech by Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the militant Lebanese Hezbollah group.
It was Nasrallah’s first public remarks since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, sparked by the Palestinian militants’ deadly incursion into southern Israel on October 7.