Hezbollah deputy leader says confrontation with Israel is now ‘open-ended battle of reckoning’
We have this snap from the Reuters news agency. Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem has said that the Lebanese militant group had entered a new phase of its conflict with Israel which he described as an “open-ended battle of reckoning”.
“Threats will not stop us… We are ready to face all military possibilities,” he added.
The comments were made earlier today during a funeral for a top commander killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday.
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