Hasan Nasrallah, chief of Lebanon's Shiite group Hezbollah, on Sunday urged Egypt to open Rafah crossing to allow food, water, medicine and weapons to reach Gaza where has been under intensive Israeli offensive, Al-Manar TV reported.
"The Egyptian people should take the streets in millions to force the regime to open the crossings," Nasrallah was quoted as saying.
As the only two Arab countries along with Jordan that have established normal relations with Israel, Egypt is highly being blamed for closing Rafah crossing and helping Israel tighten the grip on the Palestinian enclave.
According to the TV report, Nasrallah even called on Egyptian army officers and politicians to pressure the regime to reject what is happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Israel started launching air strikes against Gaza on Saturday morning, hitting more than 30 targets, most of them security compounds run by the Islamic Hamas movement.
The coastal strip was under intensive Israeli air strikes for the second successive day on Sunday, during which at least 285 Palestinians have so far been killed in the powerful offensive which Israel said was aimed at halting nearly daily cross-border rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
Nasrallah accused some Arab states of urging the Israelis to finish up Hamas movement in Gaza, saying "what is happening today in Gaza is an exact copy of what happened to us in 2006 war (between Israel and Hezbollah)."
"The American and Zionists want to impose their conditions on the Palestinians, on Lebanon and on Syria," Nasrallah said.
He, meanwhile, denounced Israel for its measures on its northern borders with Lebanon, saying "such measures could be precautionary, but, the enemy might launch some kind of action against Lebanon."
"We are ready for the confrontation," vowed the Hezbollah chief.
Nasrallah called on Hezbollah supporters to gather in huge numbers in southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday to express solidarity with the Palestinian victims in the Gaza Strip.
Source:Xinhua
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