The deputy chief of Hezbollah has said the militant group is continuing on its path against Israel, adding they are ‘ready’ for a ground invasion.
It comes after the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike over the weekend.
Deputy leader Naim Qassem has warned that if Israel wants to launch a ground invasion in Lebanon, its fighters are prepared and ready, adding: “We are confident the Israeli enemy will not achieve its aims.
“We will not budge an inch from our position in supporting Gaza and Palestine and defending Lebanon and its people.”
Lebanon’s Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem delivers an address
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Israeli forces have dealt multiple blows to Hezbollah in a two-week wave of attacks on targets in Lebanon that has eliminated several commanders. The possibility that Israel’s next move might be to send ground troops and tanks over the border is on many minds.
In other developments, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said an Israeli airstrike killed its leader in Lebanon in the city of Tyre on Monday, and another Palestinian organisation said three of its leaders died in a strike in central Beirut, the first such hit inside the capital’s limits.
The killings were the latest in a wave of intensified Israeli attacks on militant targets in Lebanon, part of a conflict also stretching from the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the occupied West Bank, to Yemen, and within Israel itself.
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