Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem, in his first address since being elected to the post on October 29th, said on Wednesday that the Lebanese armed group will continue to implement its war plan against Israel.
“We will continue with our war plan within the outlined political framework, we will stay on our war path,” he said, adding that he plans to follow the agenda set by his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital.
He added that Hezbollah can continue to fight for days, weeks and months.
“Leave our country if you want to cut losses, if you stay you will pay,” Kasem told Israel.
At the same time, the Israeli military launched massive airstrikes on the historic city of Baalbek and surrounding villages in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa region on Wednesday, security sources said, following the Israeli military’s order to evacuate the city and its suburbs.
There was currently no information on casualties. Thousands of people have left the city since the evacuation order was issued about four hours before the attack began.
