- Hezbollah’s interim leader Sheikh Naim Kassem made the threat today
- He also said Hezbollah’s capabilities were still intact.
- He added that the terrorist group was happy to escalate the conflict.
Hezbollah’s interim leader has issued a chilling threat to Israel in his latest television statement, as the conflict between the IDF and the terrorist group grows increasingly bitter.
Interim leader Sheikh Naim Kassem, assigned to the post following the IDF’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on September 27, said today in a defiant televised statement that even more Israelis would be displaced as Hezbollah continues to fire toward Israel.
He also stated that despite heavy damage caused by airstrikes and pager and walkie-talkie explosions, Hezbollah’s capabilities remained intact.
Kassem said: ‘We are firing hundreds of rockets and dozens of drones. “A large number of settlements and cities are under fire from the resistance,” he said.
“Our capabilities are fine and our fighters are deployed on the front lines.”
He said top Hezbollah leaders are running the war and that commanders killed by Israel have been replaced, saying: “We have no vacant positions.”
Interim leader Sheikh Naim Kassem (pictured) said in a defiant televised statement today that even more Israelis would be displaced as Hezbollah continues to fire into Israel.
Smoke rises from a village across the border in Lebanon following an Israeli air force strike on October 4, 2024 in Rihaniya, Israel.
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system operates to intercept rockets launched from Lebanon towards Israel, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Haifa, Israel.
He added that Hezbollah will name a new leader to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on an underground base in Beirut last month, “but circumstances are difficult because of the war.”
The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel has reached new heights today.
The terrorist group said today it launched a “large salvo” of 85 projectiles at the northern Israeli city of Haifa, and the IDF confirmed 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 slightly injured by shrapnel. Israeli media broadcast images 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 an attack in Beirut.
The military said the attack killed Suhail Husseini, who they said was responsible for overseeing the group’s logistics, budget and management. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.
A person reacts to the site where a rocket, launched from Lebanon, damaged a residential apartment building when it landed in Israel
A photograph taken on October 8, 2024, from a position in northern Israel, near the Lebanese border, shows smoke billowing following Israeli bombing of Lebanese territory.
A damaged car under the rubble of a building following an Israeli airstrike in the Dahieh district of Beirut, Lebanon, on October 8, 2024.
In addition to airstrikes, Israel has been conducting ground incursions into Lebanese territory.
The Israeli military said a fourth division is now participating in the raid, which has expanded westward, 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 continue attacks until there is a ceasefire in Gaza.
The fighting, which intensified in mid-September, has displaced more than a million Lebanese.
Hezbollah began attacking Israeli military posts along the border in support of its Hamas allies in the Gaza Strip.