Hezbollah leader issues chilling televised threat against Israelis as group extends rocket fire deeper into Israel
Hezbollah’s acting leader has issued a chilling threat to Israel in his latest televised statement, as the conflict between the IDF and the terror group becomes increasingly bitter.
Acting leader Sheikh Naim Kassem, who was appointed to the post following the IDF’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah by airstrike on September 27, said in a defiant televised statement today that more Israelis would be displaced if Hezbollah fires rockets further into Israel .
He also claimed that despite the serious damage caused by airstrikes and the explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies, Hezbollah’s capabilities were still intact.
Kassem said: ‘We are firing hundreds of missiles and dozens of drones. A large number of settlements and cities are under fire from the resistance.
“Our capabilities are excellent and our fighters are deployed along the front lines.”
He said Hezbollah’s top leaders are leading the war and commanders killed by Israel have been replaced. He said: ‘We have no vacant posts.’
Acting leader Sheikh Naim Kassem (pictured) said in a defiant televised statement today that more Israelis would be displaced if Hezbollah continued to fire on Israel.
Smoke rises from a village across the border with Lebanon after an Israeli Air Force attack on October 4, 2024 in Rihaniya, Israel
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system is active to intercept missiles from Lebanon towards Israel, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, seen from Haifa, Israel
He added that Hezbollah will appoint a new leader to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed last month in an Israeli airstrike on an underground base in Beirut, “but conditions are difficult because of the war.”
The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel has reached new heights today.
The terror group said today it launched a “large salvo” of 85 projectiles at the northern Israeli city of Haifa, with the IDF confirming it had witnessed the rockets crossing the border, adding that it fired most of the rockets had intercepted.
Israeli rescue service Magen David Adom said a 70-year-old woman was moderately injured by shrapnel. Israeli media broadcast images of what appeared to be minor damage to buildings near the coastal city of Haifa.
Meanwhile, the IDF said it had killed a senior Hezbollah commander during an attack on Beirut.
The military said the attack killed Suhail Husseini, who it said was responsible for overseeing the group’s logistics, budget and management. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.
A person reacts to the scene where a rocket fired from Lebanon damaged a residential apartment building as it landed in Israel
A photo taken on October 8, 2024, from a position in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, shows clouds of smoke after an Israeli bombardment of Lebanese territory
A damaged car among the rubble of a building after an Israeli airstrike on the Dahieh district in Beirut, Lebanon, October 8, 2024
In addition to air strikes, Israel is also carrying out ground raids on Lebanese territory.
The Israeli military said a fourth division is now taking part in the incursion, which has expanded westward, but operations still appear to be limited to a narrow strip along the border.
The 146th Division, consisting of reservists, had entered southern Lebanon in an apparent escalation.
Hezbollah has vowed to continue attacks until a ceasefire in Gaza is reached.
The fighting, which escalated in mid-September, has displaced more than 1 million Lebanese.
An aerial view of the destruction following the Israeli attack on an Abdulhadi family home in the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza City
A house lies in ruins after an Israeli attack, amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip
Hezbollah began attacking Israeli military posts along the border in support of its Hamas allies in the Gaza Strip.
In Gaza, where Israel continues a bitter military campaign to root out Hamas, at least 30 people were killed late Monday, including six children and two women.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where the bodies were taken, announced an updated toll on Tuesday as more bodies were recovered from the rubble.
The attacks took place on the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel that sparked the war.
Two attacks hit homes in the built-up Bureij refugee camp, which dates back to the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s founding. An Associated Press journalist counted 21 bodies on Monday, along with a dozen injured people, including several children.
The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza war is approaching 42,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and militants.
