Hezbollah warns of more rockets unless Israel ends air and ground attacks

Hezbollah vows to occurrence much rockets until Israel stops aerial strikes and crushed penetration successful Lebanon.

Hezbollah’s acting main has warned the radical plans to occurrence rockets into much areas of Israel until the Netanyahu authorities stops its aerial strikes and ends its crushed penetration of Lebanon.

“I americium telling the Israeli location front: The solution is simply a ceasefire,” Naim Qassem said successful a code broadcast unrecorded connected Tuesday, adding that the radical would not beryllium defeated by the ongoing bombardment of its strongholds arsenic good arsenic the sidesplitting of its leadership.

Qassem said Hezbollah is focused connected “hurting the enemy”, signalling that it would ramp up attacks further southbound successful Israel.

Qassem has led the radical since September 27 of this year, erstwhile its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was assassinated successful an Israeli aerial onslaught successful Beirut’s confederate suburbs.

He added that a ceasefire successful the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip is the “solution” to extremity the escalating conflict.

“We cannot abstracted Lebanon from Palestine, oregon Palestine from the world,” helium said.

Hezbollah and Israel person been exchanging near-daily cross-border occurrence since Israel launched its ongoing deadly battle connected Gaza successful October past year. Fighting lone intensified successful mid-September, erstwhile Israel started bombarding the country, including the densely populated superior Beirut.

Israel launched a crushed violative successful confederate Lebanon a week later.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said astatine slightest 2,350 radical person been killed since the commencement of the Israeli battle connected Lebanon. At slightest 1,740 radical person been killed crossed the state since mid-September, portion much than 1 cardinal radical person been forced to fly their homes successful parts of Lebanon’s southbound and east.

Cross-border attacks continue

In different time of fighting, Hezbollah said it launched a barrage of rockets towards Haifa and targeted Israeli bulldozers and a vessel adjacent the border.

Israel responded with aerial strikes crossed Lebanon, a time aft an estimated 41 radical were killed successful attacks connected the country. In the latest of the attacks, astatine slightest 10 radical were killed and 15 wounded successful an Israeli onslaught connected Qana successful confederate Lebanon, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.

Israel’s subject targeted respective areas successful confederate and eastbound Lebanon connected Tuesday, including successful the Bekaa Valley wherever a infirmary successful Baalbek metropolis was enactment retired of service, Lebanon’s authoritative National News Agency reported.

Hezbollah, meanwhile, said it downed 2 Israeli drones connected Tuesday, adding that the 2nd was seen “burning” implicit Israeli territory.

Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem, reporting from Beirut, said Qassem “projected much assurance successful the corporate enactment of Hezbollah”.

“Qassem’s connection was that the radical has already turned the leafage of the assassination of its person arsenic good arsenic the pager and walkie-talkie attacks,” Hashem said. “Hezbollah has capabilities to deed the full Israel and Qassem said the radical has been adopting a caller strategy that is inflicting symptom connected Israel.”

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier told France’s President Emmanuel Macron helium opposed immoderate “unilateral ceasefire, which does not alteration the information concern successful Lebanon”.

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati, meanwhile, said that his state was acceptable to bolster its subject beingness successful the southbound aft immoderate ceasefire successful practice with the United Nations Interim Force successful Lebanon (UNIFIL).

Mikati told Al Jazeera that information has been tightened astatine ports, onshore crossings and its lone planetary airdrome successful Beirut “to region immoderate pretexts” for an Israeli attack. He added that the US has fixed “some benignant of a guarantee” that Israel volition de-escalate its attacks connected the capital.

Later connected Tuesday, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she plans to sojourn Lebanon connected October 18.

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