●Nasrallah after Rouwaiss: "I will go to Syria myself"

On 16 August 2013, the day after the Rweiss bombing, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the bombings would not deter the party and that "if the battle in Syria requires that I and all of Hezbollah go, we will go", promising to double the presence there; the speech fixed the link between the security of the suburbs and the battle in Syria.