Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem slams Israel for striking Hezbollah targets in Dahieh, calls on Lebanese government to put a stop to Israel's actions. Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem on Saturday evening spoke in honor of Al-Quds Day, the last day of Ramadan.
"We need to set a limit to Israel's attacks - a boundary which was crossed in an attack on the Dahieh area of Beirut for the first time since the ceasefire, and also attacks on a number of locations in southern Lebanon," Qassem said. "We will not accept that this behavior of Israel's will continue, and if Israel thinks that it will create a new equation in which it justifies by means of false justifications with a goal of killing, of entering various places, and with the goal of striking in Dahieh, in Beqaa, and in southern Lebanon - then we will oppose this, and the State of Lebanon must stop this."
"We will not accept a situation in which Israel does as it wishes and we stand on the side. There is a limit to everything. This opposition exists and is committed at this point to the agreement - but if Israel does not keep the agreement and the State of Lebanon does not reach the desired result on a diplomatic level - then we will have no choice but to return to the other options. Israel needs to know that by means of pressure, by means of occupying five locations, or by means of its crimes - it will not achieve what it wishes." He added, "During the past few weeks, a number of messages have reached me from fighters who said that they are willing to carry out an act of a martyr's death, and I told them that they are in the heart of the act of a martyr's death. They were sad when they did not die a martyr's death during the war - because they love the idea that their lives will end on the battlefield." (Read More)