Hezbollah official says his movement ready for all possibilities amid growing Israeli threats

The Israeli regime only understands the language of force, a top official with the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has said, expressing the movement’s preparedness for “all possibilities” in the face of the occupying entity’s threats.

Vice President of the Executive Council of Hezbollah Sheikh Ali Damoush said on Friday that Israeli threats against Lebanon are worthless in the face of the “stronger than ever” resistance in the Arab country, Lebanon’s al-Manar news network reported.

“We are confident in ourselves and in our strength and we are ready for all possibilities,” Sheikh Damoush said. “It is not possible for us to remain silent about our rights.”

Tensions have been running high between Israel and Lebanon amidst setbacks in the maritime border negotiations.

According to a top Israeli source, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday rejected Lebanon’s proposed amendments to a US-drafted agreement to resolve the long-time maritime border dispute over two offshore natural gas fields.

“If Hezbollah or someone else tries to harm Karish [rig] or threaten us, the negotiations on the maritime line will stop immediately,” Israeli media quoted the source as saying.

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The details of the 10-page draft are not known, but Lebanese officials have been optimistic.

Also on Thursday, the Israeli minister for military affairs, Benny Gantz, ordered the readiness of the Israeli military for a possible war with Hezbollah in the northern regions of the occupied territories.

Gantz directed the Israeli military to “prepare for a scenario of escalation in the north, both offensively and defensively, given the developments in the negotiations on the maritime border,” the Israeli ministry of military affairs said in a statement.

Reacting to the developments, Sheikh Damoush maintained that the Israeli regime does not understand the language of diplomacy and only recognizes the logic of force.

“The enemy does not understand the language of diplomacy, and whoever thinks that the enemy can recognize Lebanon’s rights through the logic of negotiation alone is wrong,” he asserted. “The enemy only understands the logic of force, and this is what all past experiences have proven.”

He went on to say that the unified Lebanese position based on resistance caused the Israelis to be in a “state of unprecedented confusion” and that is why the regime once again resorted to the language of threats and intimidation.

Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported on Friday that the regime in Tel Aviv is planning on activating the Karish gas rig and will start operating experimentally before the official extraction of gas begins.

Meanwhile, earlier this week, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported that Lebanon will not recognize Israel’s unilaterally placed boundary in 2000, citing unnamed government officials.

Lebanon also seeks a reversal of the demand for a land border demarcation and wants the issue to be handed to the UN for future discussions.

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