Israel 'failed' in Gaza and will negotiate: Hezbollah chief

The head of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said on Sunday that Israel had failed to achieve its objectives in Gaza and this would force it to negotiate.

"What has the enemy achieved in 100 days, other than killing?" Hassan Nasrallah asked in a televised speech. 

"It has not achieved any real victory or semblance of victory. It has failed in achieving its declared, half-declared and implicit objectives," he added, on the 100th day of the Israel-Hamas war. 

Nasrallah continued: "If this path continues, be it in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen or Iraq, the enemy government will have no other choice but to accept the conditions of the resistance in Gaza, thereby putting an end to the aggression against Gaza and entering into negotiations."

The Hezbollah leader also denounced air strikes by the US and Britain, which on Friday hit scores of rebel targets in Yemen in response to the Houthis' attacks on shipping.

"What the Americans did in the Red Sea will harm the security of all maritime navigation," Nasrallah said.