Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Tuesday said the group's military capabilities remained "fine" despite weeks of heavy Israeli airstrikes.
"You see that our daily accomplishments are great. Hundreds of rockets and dozens of aircraft (drones), a great number of (Israeli) settlements and cities have come under rocket fire... I would like to reassure you that our capabilities are fine," Qassem said in a televised address.
Qassem said that even more Israelis will be displaced as Hezbollah extends its rocket fire deeper into Israel, in a defiant statement marking the anniversary of fighting that escalated into war last month.
He stressed that Hezbollah's capabilities are still intact and that the group has replaced senior commanders killed in Israeli airstrikes. "We have no vacant posts," he said, adding that Hezbollah will name a new leader to succeed Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in an underground base in south Beirut last month, "but the circumstances are difficult because of the war."