Hizbullah called Sunday for launching "a new era" based on "forgetting the past, despite all its pain and wounds."

Hizbullah's Politburo member Mahmoud Qmati made the call in a rally in south Lebanon marking the second anniversary of the party's "divine victory" over Israel in the 34-day war of 2006.

However, Qmati said that "even if the prisoners were liberated, as well as the Shebaa Farms and the Kfar Shouba Hill, the resistance would persist."

"Its role is not over," Qmati stressed.