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 in an airstrike on September 27, said in a defiant televised statement today that even more Israelis would be displaced as Hezbollah fires rockets further into Israel.
He also claimed that despite the severe damage 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.
‘Our capabilities are fine and our fighters are deployed along the front lines.’
He suggested Hezbollah’s top leaders are directing the war and that commanders killed by Israel have been replaced, saying: ‘We have no vacant posts.’
Acting leader Sheikh Naim Kassem (pictured) said in a defiant televised statement today that even more Israelis would be displaced as Hezbollah fires further into Israel
Smoke rises from a village across the border of Lebanon following a strike by the Israeli air force on October 4, 2024, in Rehaniya, Israel
The Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from Lebanon towards Israel, amid hostilities with Hezbollah, as seen from Haifa, Israel
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 them.
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.
A person reacts at the scene where a rocket, fired from Lebanon, damaged a residential apartment building when it landed in Israel
A picture taken on October 8, 2024, from a position in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, shows smoke billowing following Israeli bombardment on the Lebanese territory
A damaged car under the rubble of a building following an Israeli airstrike on the Dahieh district in Beirut, Lebanon
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 ceasefire in Gaza.
The fighting, which escalated in mid-September, has displaced over 1 million Lebanese.
An aerial view of the destruction following the Israeli attack on a house belonging to the Abdulhadi family at Bureij refugee camp in Gaza City
A house lies in ruins following an Israeli strike, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip
Hezbollah began attacking Israeli military posts along the border in support of its Hamas allies in the Gaza Strip.
Over in Gaza, where Israel is still conducting a bitter military campaign to wipe Hamas out, at least 30 people, including six children and two women, were killed late on Monday.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where the bodies were taken, provided an updated toll Tuesday as more bodies were recovered from the rubble.
The strikes took place on the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack in southern Israel that triggered the war.
Two strikes hit houses in the built-up Bureij refugee camp, which dates back to the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation. An Associated Press journalist counted 21 bodies on Monday, along with about a dozen wounded, including several children.
The Palestinian death toll in the war in Gaza is nearing 42,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and militants.
