“The Israeli army is exhausted (…) on the northern front, in the West Bank and in Gaza,” said the leader of the Lebanese Islamist movement, Hassan Nasrallah, during a televised speech.
The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah faction, whose military arm has been exchanging fire with Israel’s military for months in support of the Palestinian Hamas movement, said on Wednesday that Israel’s military is too weakened to engage in a war against Lebanon.
“The Israeli army is exhausted (…) on the northern front, in the West Bank and in Gaza,” said the leader of the Lebanese Islamist movement, Hassan Nasrallah, during a televised speech.
His remarks came as Israel launched airstrikes ever deeper into Lebanese territory against positions of the powerful Hezbollah, seen as increasing the threat of a new war.
“This enemy and its society (…) are showing signs of fatigue,” he continued, estimating that the Israeli army is facing a “shortage” of personnel required to engage in a war in Lebanon.
He also once again accused the Israeli military of imposing “media censorship” on the actual number of its members killed in the firefight with its faction’s military wing.
In Israeli territory, according to the military, ten of its members and seven civilians have been killed in the hostilities, which began the day after Hamas’ unprecedented offensive in southern Israel.
In Lebanese territory, 322 people have been killed, most of them fighters from Hezbollah and allied organizations, but also at least 56 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
The incessant firefights, initially confined to border areas, have also forcibly displaced thousands of southern Lebanese residents.
The day before yesterday, Tuesday, the Israeli air force launched raids in the Baalbek area, in eastern Lebanon, about a hundred kilometers from the border, in which two members of the pro-Iranian faction were killed.
For its part, Hezbollah announced that it fired about a hundred rockets against Israeli military positions.
“The resistance has so far prevented the enemy from starting a war with Lebanon,” said Hassan Nasrallah.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallad recently warned that a possible truce in the Gaza Strip would not affect Israel’s “goal” of pushing Hezbollah out of its northern border region, by force or through diplomacy.
In northern Israel, tens of thousands of residents have also been forcibly displaced by the fighting.
Hezbollah says it will not stop attacks on Israel unless a ceasefire is declared in the Gaza Strip.
Source :Skai
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