“We will cause pain to Israel” says the deputy head of Hezbollah and calls for a… cease-fire

Lebanon’s Hezbollah said today it had launched a “barrage of rockets” at Haifa, two days after the group’s drone killed four soldiers at an army base in the southern part of the large northern Israeli city. Sunday’s attack was the deadliest the pro-Iranian movement has unleashed on Israeli soil in nearly a month of military escalation. The militant Islamist group says it is now engaged in “close fighting” with Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon. Israel, for its part, stepped up its aerial bombardment of Lebanon. Meanwhile, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, said the group would cause pain to Israel even as he called for a ceasefire. “The solution is a ceasefire, we are not speaking from a position of weakness. If the Israelis don’t want this, we will continue,” Qassem said in a recorded speech broadcast by the organization’s television network. “But after the ceasefire, with […]
Source: News Beast

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