The head of the terrorist group Hezbollah, Naim Qassemthreatened during a speech issued this Wednesday with a new attack on the center of Tel Avivthe speech responds to the operations of the Israel Defense Forces in which they achieved dismiss several members of the movement in the capital of Lebanonincluding the spokesperson Mohammed Afif and four of his collaborators.
“Israel attacked the heart of Beirutso you should expect the response to take place in the center of Tel Aviv“, he stated in a public statement Hezbollah leaderformer vice general secretary, but who took the reins of the group after the murder of Hasan Nasrallah precisely in one of those attacks carried out by the Israeli Army over the Lebanese capital.
In this sense, Qasem has recognized that the islamist group went through a phase of “confusion” in the days after the death of Nasrallahas he had been the leader of the Shiite militia for more than three decades.
Qasem stressed that Hezbollah’s main battle against Israel It was in support of the Palestinian cause, but a couple of months ago the group launched a new military campaign against the Israelis called ‘The Battle of the Brave’ and whose objective is to “repel the comprehensive aggression against Lebanon.”
Likewise, the terrorist leader admitted reception of a “negotiation document”which will be studied in depth in the coming days, although it has already been announced that for Hezbollah “a complete ceasefire” and “the preservation of Lebanese sovereignty”.
On the subject, Qassem said that they would not accept any truce that violates Lebanese sovereignty, since Israel demands freedom to act against the movement backed by Iran.
Hezbollah seeks a “complete and exhaustive end to aggression” and “the preservation of the sovereignty of the Lebanon… the Israeli enemy cannot enter (Lebanese territory) whenever it wants,” he stated.
“Israel cannot defeat us or impose its conditions on us,” he added, while the US envoy Amos Hochstein concluded a two-day visit to Beirut seeking to negotiate a ceasefire agreement between Israel y Hezbollah.
Hochstein said on Tuesday Beirut that he saw “a real opportunity” to end the fighting, and on Wednesday said he was heading to Israel “to try to close this if we can.”
In Beirutmet twice with the president of parliament, Nabih Berrian ally of Hezbollah who has led mediation efforts on behalf of the group backed by Iran.
“We have received the (American) document and we have made some comments,” he said. Qassemadding that the comments “and those of the president newwhich are in harmony, have been communicated to the American envoy.”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Gideon Saarsaid on Wednesday that any ceasefire agreement must ensure that Israel have the “freedom to act” against the Lebanese militant group.
“In any agreement we reach, we will need to maintain the freedom to act if there are violations,” he told foreign ambassadors before the expected arrival of Hochstein a Israel.
The head of Hezbollah He said a ceasefire depended on “the Israeli response and seriousness” of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
(With information from AFP, Europa Press and EFE)
