Thursday, November 7, 2024 - Hezbollah militant group said Wednesday, November 7, that tens of thousands of its militants were ready to fight Israel, adding that the US election result would have no effect on the war in Lebanon.
The Iran-backed group’s leader also warned that nowhere in Israel would
be “off-limits” to attacks, as the Israeli military said about 120 projectiles
had been fired across the border into Israeli territory on Wednesday.
The Israeli military struck Hezbollah’s main bastion of south Beirut
after issuing an evacuation warning.
Israel and Hezbollah have been at war since late September, when the
Israeli military decided to move its war focus from Gaza to securing its
northern border with Lebanon.
Israel’s shift in military focus came after Hezbollah began launching
low-intensity cross-border attacks on Israel last year, in support of its
Palestinian ally Hamas following its October 7, 2023 attack.
Efforts to end the war in Gaza that was sparked by the Hamas attack have
yet to bear fruit, and the war in Lebanon has killed nearly 2,000 people,
according to an AFP tally of Lebanese health ministry figures.
“We have tens of thousands of trained resistance combatants” ready to
fight, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said in a televised speech marking 40 days
since his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a strike.
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