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Hezbollah deputy leader says confrontation with Israel is now 'open-ended battle of reckoning'
We have this snap from the Reuters news agency. Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem has said that the Lebanese militant group had entered a new phase of its conflict with Israel which he described as an “open-ended battle of reckoning”.
“Threats will not stop us... We are ready to face all military possibilities,” he added.
The comments were made earlier today during a funeral for a top commander killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday.
Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, has praised its ally, Hezbollah, after the Lebanese group launched overnight rocket strikes at northern Israel.
Hamas said in a statement:
Hamas saluted the resistance fighters in Lebanon for their resilience and bravery in facing the Zionist war machine and for their determination to continue fighting in support of the Palestinian people and their resistance in Gaza and the West Bank.
Here are some more comments from Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Qassem.
“We admit that we are pained. We are humans. But as we are pained — you will also be pained,” Kassem said at the funeral of top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Akil, who reportedly led the Radwan Force, a special forces unit tasked with cross-border attacks on Israel.
He said a barrage of rockets fired by the group deep into Israel early on Sunday was only the beginning, vowing to destroy Israel’s economy.
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