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Netanyahu’s insistence on war quickens Israel’s demise: Hezbollah official

Thursday, 18 July 2024 9:58 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 18 July 2024 9:58 PM ]

Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, chairman of Hezbollah’s Executive Council

A senior official with Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah has said that the Israeli prime minister’s insistence on waging another war against the country only serves to speed up the occupying entity’s demise.

Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, chairman of the movement’s Executive Council, made the remarks on Thursday, Resistance News Network, a Telegram channel, reported.

“The more the Israeli enemy's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists on war, the quicker he hastens the end of the entity,” he said.

The Israeli regime has been waging sporadic attacks on southern Lebanon since October 7, when it started a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

The attacks have sparked a firefight with Hezbollah, which fought off two Israeli wars against the country in 2000 and 2006.

Over the past months, the regime has repeatedly threatened to expand the war on Gaza, which has killed close to 39,000 Palestinians so far, to Lebanon.

Commenting on the Tel Aviv regime’s warmongering attitude on Wednesday, Lebanon’s caretaker Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib said, “We have heard dozens of statements issued by senior Israeli officials threatening to burn Lebanon, destroy it, and return it to the Stone Age.”

War on Lebanon to trigger ‘major explosion’ across entire region: Minister

Lebanon’s caretaker foreign minister strongly warns about the regional repercussions of another war by the Israeli regime against the country.

The resistance movement has, however, pledged to defend the country with all its resources in the event of another Israeli war.

Also on Wednesday, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah insisted on the group’s capability to successfully head off such potential military onslaught.