Beirut:

Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem warned Israelis on Tuesday that the one resolution to the present warfare was a ceasefire that might pave the way in which for north Israel residents to return, vowing his group wouldn’t be defeated.

“I’m telling the Israeli house entrance: the answer is a ceasefire,” Qassem stated in his third handle since an Israeli strike killed former chief Hassan Nasrallah.

“I’m not talking from a place of weak point, as a result of if Israel doesn’t need (a ceasefire), we are going to proceed,” he added.

“The resistance (Hezbollah) won’t be defeated as a result of that is its land,” he stated.

“After a ceasefire through oblique settlement”, residents of northern Israel will “return to the north and the opposite steps will likely be drawn up”, Qassem stated.

“For the reason that Israeli enemy focused all of Lebanon, now we have the fitting from a defensive place to focus on anywhere” in Israel, “whether or not the centre, the north or the south”, he stated. “We’ll select the purpose that we see acceptable”.

Nearly a 12 months of cross-border exchanges of fireplace between Israel and Hezbollah escalated into all-out warfare on September 23, with Israel closely bombarding Hezbollah strongholds in south and east Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Israel later introduced it started floor operations in south Lebanon, and Hezbollah fighters and Israel forces have been battling on the border, with the Iran-backed group repeatedly saying it has confronted Israeli infiltration makes an attempt.

Within the pre-recorded video additionally launched on social media, Qassem showing seated at a desk with small Lebanese and Hezbollah flags and a framed picture of Nasrallah, in distinction to the deputy chief’s two earlier, darkly lit speeches since Nasrallah was killed on September 27.

Qassem stated his group had begun an “equation of wounding the enemy”, repeatedly focusing on north Israel’s Haifa space and warned that “with the continuation of the warfare, the variety of uninhabited” Israeli cities will enhance.

“Greater than two million individuals will likely be within the hazard zone,” he stated.

Hezbollah opened what it says is a “help entrance” for Gaza from Lebanon, launching cross-border assaults into Israel the day after its Palestinian ally Hamas’s October 7, 2023 assault on Israel sparked warfare within the Gaza Strip.

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