Nasrallah urges Egypt to stop helping siege of Gaza

"To Gazans I say: Your pain is our pain and your wounds are our wounds," he told the cheering crowd, who waved Palestinian flags distributed by Hizbullah officials. "Israel's air force will fail to destroy the will of the fighters firing rockets."

Nasrallah warned that any Israeli ground offensive into Gaza would be destined for failure with the Israeli military incurring heavy losses and defeat at the hands of Hamas fighters.

Encouraged by Nasrallah's warm-up speakers, the crowd chanted "Death to Israel," and "Death to America," as a homemade Israeli flag decorated with swastikas was burned and songs paying tribute to the Shiite resistance group were blasted out of oversized speakers.

Ali Hamdan, 17, one of a group of young men visibly enraged at Israel's latest military offensive against the Palestinians, said he believed that the Israeli military's actions in Gaza would come to be seen as a tipping point in the Arab-Israeli conflict. 

"Everything will change because of this," he said. "When I see the TV, I feel angry and sad. Where is the UN? Where are those that defend freedom?  Where are the rights of the babies? I will fight with Hizbullah against Israel. They [the Israelis] are the terrorists."

He jabbed his finger to a placard showing a sickening collage of dead and wounded children. "Tell me - is this justice?" he demanded.