Beirut – Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has said that resistance against Tel Aviv’s regime has thwarted an Israeli-US project to kill the Palestinian cause.

Speaking on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in Bint Jbeil town, Nasrallah said on Friday that the resistance, which started in 1982 to confront the Israeli occupation, thwarted the Zionist-US plot in the region and marked a new era in the Middle East.

He also said that resistance foiled the Israeli regime plan for the long-term occupation of southern Lebanon and forced Israel to forget its project to form a 'greater Israel' and instead build walls along its borders.

He also said that resistance groups today are more powerful than Israel and it is Tel Aviv which is scared of being attacked.

The Hezbollah chief also confirmed that the Lebanese pilgrims who had been abducted in Syria were released and thanked all those who played a role in their freedom, including Turkish and Syrian authorities