Hezbollah official: Hamas told us not to begin a war on Israel

For the first time since the outbreak of the war two and a half months ago, a senior official in Hezbollah provided an explanation of the Lebanese terrorist organization's readiness to launch an all-out war against Israel, N12 reported on Saturday.

Nawaf al-Moussawi, a Shia member of Hezbollah’s bloc in the Lebanese parliament, explains that following Hamas's terror attack on October 7, Hezbollah approached the Gaza-based Islamist organization and basically asked whether they should begin a war against Israel on the northern border.

"We asked our brothers in Gaza, 'what can we do?' If we initiate an all-out war in Lebanon – will it stop the fighting in Gaza or not?" al-Moussawi said in an interview broadcast on Al-Manar TV, the official channel of Hezbollah. "Their answer was no, it will not stop; the fighting in Gaza will not cease. Only with a victory over Israel within Gaza," he continued. READ MORE