The Imam Mahdi Scouts Association held a ceremony for the initiation, during which the Deputy Secretary-General of "Hezbollah," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivered a speech stating: "Today, the Israeli army announced that it has freed 4 prisoners held by Hamas, making a great fuss about achieving an accomplishment. However, it did not tell people that these four were the price paid for their release from Hamas, which amounts to 120,000 martyrs and wounded from the Palestinian people, in addition to thousands of Israeli dead and wounded. If we speak about this event, we say it is a loss, and it is considered a disgraceful defeat that Israel could only secure the release of some of its prisoners after such heinous crimes and after having killed and injured thousands of Israeli soldiers and others. What kind of accomplishment is this?"
He continued: "We still believe that the resistance in Palestine will emerge victorious, and there has also been a great achievement from the flood of Al-Aqsa in that the entire world is now talking about the Palestinian cause, demonstrating for it, issuing positions for it, and standing against the Zionist entity. There are countries that have withdrawn their diplomats from the Israeli entity, and there are countries that have recognized the state of Palestine, with more than 140 countries in the United Nations recognizing the rights of Palestine. None of this existed before the flood of Al-Aqsa. It is also important that the whole world today speaks about Israeli brutality and recognizes that this usurping entity is a danger to all humanity, and that these crimes are against humanity and constitute acts of genocide."
He concluded: "The sacrifices of the fighters from zero distance and the sacrifices of the fighters with their combat means from close range demonstrate courage, pride, persistence, resilience, and confrontation. Such martyrs and fighters can only succeed and uplift the nation, while these Israeli monsters, along with the American administration that supports them, cannot achieve any success no matter how long it takes. Victory is for the believers."
