Hezbollah acting leader issues chilling televised threat to Israelis

Hezbollah’s acting leader has issued a chilling threat to Israel in his latest television statement, as conflict between the IDF and the terror group gets more and more bitter.

Acting leader Sheikh Naim Kassem, assigned to the post following the IDF’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah using an airstrike on September 27, said in a defiant televised statement today that even more Israelis would be displaced as Hezbollah fires further into Israel.

He also claimed that despite the severe damaged done using airstrikes and the pager and walkie-talkie explosions, Hezbollah’s capabilities were still intact. Kassem said: ‘We are firing hundreds of rockets and dozens of drones. A large number of settlements and cities are under the fire of the resistance,’ he said. ‘Our capabilities are fine and our fighters are deployed along the front lines.’

He said Hezbollah’s top leaders are directing the war and that commanders killed by Israel have been replaced, saying: ‘We have no vacant posts.’ He added that Hezbollah will name a new leader to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike on an underground base in Beirut last month, ‘but the circumstances are difficult because of the war’. The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel has today reached new heights.

The terror group today said that it launched a ‘large salvo’ of 85 projectiles at the northern Israeli city of Haifa, with the IDF confirming it had witnessed the missiles crossing the border, adding that it had intercepted most of the missiles. Israel’s rescue service Magen David Adom said a 70-year-old woman was moderately wounded by shrapnel. Israeli media aired footage of what appeared to be minor damage to buildings near the coastal city of Haifa.

Meanwhile, the IDF said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in a strike on Beirut. The military said the strike killed Suhail Husseini, who it said was responsible for overseeing logistics, budget and management of the group. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.

On top of airstrikes, Israel has been conducting ground incursions into Lebanese territory. The Israeli military said a fourth division is now taking part in the incursion, which has expanded to the west, but operations still appear to be confined to a narrow strip along the border.

The 146th Division, made up of reservists, had entered southern Lebanon, in an apparent escalation. Hezbollah has vowed to keep up the attacks until there is a cease-fire in Gaza.

The fighting, which escalated in mid-September, has displaced over 1 million Lebanese. Hezbollah began attacking Israeli military posts along the border in support of its Hamas allies in the Gaza Strip.

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