Making Israel wait for a week is 'part of the punishment', says Hezbollah leader

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has just finished delivering a speech. Here are some of the key points:

• All settlements near the border with Lebanon, from Nahariya to the Golan Heights, are required to be near fortified areas
• Haifa residents in Israel must be prepared for any scenario
• Netanyahu does not want a ceasefire deal and wants to subjugate Gaza in a bid to have absolute security control over it, and the Israelis do not accept a Palestinian state even in Gaza
• The West Bank is being bombed by the air force and drones, and the project there is to expand settlements and displace Palestinians towards Jordan and officially annex it
• The Israelis are telling the international community that there is no Palestinian state
• No political progress has been made since the Oslo Accords were signed 31 years ago and US talk about a Palestinian state is hypocrisy and a lie
• If Netanyahu's government wins in Gaza and the West Bank, this means that Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinian cause will be in great danger
• The real project of Netanyahu and his allies is to make Jordan an alternative homeland for the Palestinians
• The goal of this battle is to prevent Israel from winning and eliminating the Palestinian cause
• There is no doubt that the martyrdom of commander Ismail Haniyeh is a great loss for the Palestinian people and the axis of resistance, but this does not weaken or shake us, and the evidence is the escalation of the resistance
• We will respond, but slowly and carefully, and the Israeli wait is part of the punishment