Lebanon’s Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem warned Israel on Friday night to not proceed its assaults on Lebanon, emphasizing that his group has choices to answer these assaults on the applicable time in the event that they proceed.
In a televised deal with, Qassem condemned Israel’s actions, saying it has carried out “over 2,700 attacks on Lebanon since the ceasefire was agreed upon (in November last year), despite having no justification for such hostilities.”
He confused that whereas Hezbollah has allowed room for diplomacy to handle these violations, this chance will not be open-ended.
Directly addressing Israel, Qassem famous that Hezbollah has “multiple response options and does not fear confrontation,” stressing that the response will come at a time of Hezbollah’s selecting.
On the problem of disarming Hezbollah, he dismissed such calls as misguided, arguing that just one occasion, with out naming it, in Lebanon is behind such calls.
He accused these inciting “forced disarmament” of Hezbollah of serving Israeli pursuits and trying to create a schism between the resistance group and the Lebanese military, stressing {that a} situation like that’s unlikely to occur.
“We will never allow anyone to disarm Hezbollah or the resistance; this idea must be erased from consideration,” Qassem stated in his concluding remarks.
A fragile ceasefire has been in place in Lebanon since November, which ended months of cross-border warfare between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah, which escalated right into a full-scale battle in September.
Lebanese authorities have reported greater than 2,742 Israeli violations of the truce, together with the deaths of at the very least 192 victims and accidents to 485 others.
Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was supposed to totally withdraw from southern Lebanon by Jan. 26, however the deadline was prolonged to Feb. 18 after Israel refused to conform. It nonetheless maintains a navy presence at 5 border outposts.
Source: www.anews.com.tr