In first speech since Hezbollah killed two IDF soldiers in retribution for what it calls ‘Israeli assassination’ of its fighters [terrorists] and Iranian general, Hezbollah leader says proud of ‘martyrs’, admits Iran supporting operations in Syria.

[Ynet] – “Our biggest victory is that Israel feared Hezbollah’s response,” he said in a televised address Friday after a salvo of Hezbollah guided missiles killed Major Yochai Kalangel and Staff-Sgt. Dor Nini as they rode in unarmored vehicles along the Israeli-Lebanese border on Wednesday. Israel then launched an artillery and air barrage, and a Spanish peacekeeper was killed.

“If Israel thinks the resistance is detered and is scared of a conflict, I tell you now after the attack in Qunetra, we are not afraid of war. We will not think twice about confronting the enemy and we will do so if he forces us.

“We dont want war but we dont fear it,” he said, “the resistance in Lebanon is not concerned with rules of engagement. It is our legitimate and legal right to fight aggression, wherever and whenever it may occur.”

According to him, the Israeli attack in Qunetra – a Syrian city straddling its war-torn border with Lebanon – shows the “fusion of Lebanese-Iranian blood on Syrian territory, and reflects the unity of the cause and the unity of the fate of these countries,” Nassrallah said, admitting Iran was supporting his terror groups operations in Syria.