18 March 2010 - 20:30

Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed to continue resistance against Israeli occupying regime on Friday.

"The future of this region is the resistance, dignity, freedom," Nasrallah said at the Arab-International Support the Resistance Forum in Beirut.

Hezbollah chief also stressed that resistance was the right policy in face occupation. "The choice of resistance is a true, logical and victorious one."

Hezbollah secretary general further slammed Israel over "beating the drums of war" and said in case of any new offensive on part of Israel, the occupying regime would see Hezbollah emerge victorious and change the face of the region.

"I promise you, in view of all the threats you hear today... that should a new war with the Zionists erupt, we will crush the enemy, come out victorious and change the face of the region," he said.

"God willing, Israel, the occupation, hegemony and arrogance are in the process of disappearing."

Israeli occupying regime waged a bloody 33-day war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 which claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people in Lebanon.

Hezbollah, originally a resistance group formed to counter an Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, had forced the Israeli military out of Lebanon in 2000. Israel, however, continues to occupy the Lebanese Shabaa Farms.

Israeli flights over Lebanon occur on an almost daily basis and are in breach of UN Security Council resolution 1710, which in August 2006 ended the war.

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