Speaking in an exclusive interview with al-Manar on Friday, Nasrallah said he is “confident” that Hezbollah “would emerge victorious from any new war with Israel.”

“After the (2006) war, I visited the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon. They (Israelis) say their achievement is that they forced me to hide in a bunker. That’s not true; I’ve met with many people away from the spotlight. I live and get around in a natural way. I do not live in a bunker,” the Hezbollah chief said.

He said the missiles that Hezbollah fired against Israel during the 2006 war came from the Syrian military industry, and they were not manufactured in Iran.

“The war was aimed at eliminating the resistance in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, and eventually isolating Iran. What is happening in Syria is a form of revenge for that war,” he said, referring to the foreign-backed militancy against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

“The Israelis knew that a direct military confrontation would not lead to Hezbollah’s defeat and that a war with Iran was not helpful. That is why they chose to take out Syria from the axis of resistance,” Nasrallah said.

He said some parties in Lebanon “tried to confine the Lebanese army” during the 2006 war.

Nasrallah reiterated Hezbollah’s commitment to Lebanon’s national unity and the formation of a government that included all Lebanese political parties and factions, including the Future Movement.

About 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians, lost their lives during Israel’s 33-day war on Lebanon back in the summer of 2006.

According to the 629-page Winograd Report by the Israeli regime itself, Hezbollah fighters involved in defending Lebanon against the Israeli war defeated the enemy and Tel Aviv was compelled to withdraw without having achieved any of its objectives.

UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the 2006 war, calls on Israel to respect Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Earlier, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Lebanon's victory against Israel in the 33-day war last Saturday, Nasrallah said the Israeli military was shaken after the 2006.

He said generals in the Israeli military began to accuse each other of various faults after the defeat in the war.

Hezbollah fighters as well as the Lebanese military have been defending Lebanon on the country’s eastern border against foreign-backed terrorist groups from neighboring Syria, Press TV reported.

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