Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem delivered a speech on 15 October, telling Israeli leaders that the resistance group has “the right to target any point” inside Israel in response to the escalation inside Lebanon and reminding Tel Aviv that “the solution is to stop firing.”
“I’m telling the Israelis, the solution is to stop firing. The solution is a ceasefire … After a ceasefire, the [Israeli] settlers can return to the north,” Qassem said, adding that over two million settlers in the north would be “under constant threat” if Israel keeps the fires of war raging in Lebanon and Gaza.
“The resistance will never be defeated because they’re the ones that own the land. They will fight and die in dignity. Victory will come with patience,” he stressed.
The Lebanese resistance leader added, “Since the Israelis targeted all of Lebanon, we also have the right to target any point of the Zionist regime, we will choose any point we deem appropriate.”
Elsewhere in his speech, Qassem spoke of the recent Hezbollah drone attack that left dozens of casualties at a military base in the Haifa district. “The special attack of the drones on the enemy in Benyamina, which left more than 70 people dead and wounded, as well as the arrival of our rockets in Haifa, we’ve decided to set a new equation called the equation of ‘causing pain to the Zionist enemy.’”