The United States is “entirely responsible for ongoing war in Gaza”, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in his first speech since Israel’s bombardment of Gaza started, AFP reports.

“America is entirely responsible for the ongoing war on Gaza and its people, and Israel is simply a tool of execution,” Nasrallah said in a televised broadcast.

He said the United States “impedes a ceasefire and the end of the aggression”.