“We have the heads, the hands, the feet and even a nearly intact cadaver from the head down to the pelvis," he said in a live video broadcast that followed his surprise appearance in his stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut to commemorate Ashura, Shiite Muslims’ holiest day.

Speaking about his group’s war with the Jewish state in 2006, he claimed Hezbollah had forced Israel to beat a quick retreat and warned that his group stood ready for a new conflict.

“If Israel launches a new war against Lebanon, we promise them a war that will change the face of the entire region,” he said.

Hezbollah’s capture of two Israeli soldiers in July 2006 led to the 34-day war that killed more than 1,200 civilians in Lebanon, a third of them children, as well as 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.

The Jewish state failed in both its stated aims for launching the war: to stop rocket fire on northern Israel and to recover the two soldiers.

In October, Israel handed over the bodies of two Hezbollah militants and a prisoner in exchange for the remains of a drowned Israeli civilian, who was washed up on the Lebanese coast, and information on a missing airman.
Nasrallah in his speech to tens of thousands of supporters blasted US policy in the Middle East, saying it was misguided and only served the “cancerous entity”, referring to Israel.

The crowd of men, women and children carrying yellow Hezbollah flags cheered him on chanting, “God, protect Nasrallah” and “Death to America, Death to Israel”.

Public enemy
Nasrallah has been Israel’s public enemy number one since his Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shiite militant group fought a deadly month-long war against the Jewish state in the summer of 2006.

His last public appearance was at a massive “victory” rally in the southern suburbs in September 2006 in the wake of the war against Israel, after which he went into hiding.