Hezbollah MP warns Israel not to wage war on Lebanon

A senior Lebanese lawmaker has warned Israel against waging a war on Lebanon, saying the resistance in Lebanon is “mightier” than in the Gaza Strip.

“The Israeli enemy keeps threatening us with a wide war in Lebanon although it is incapable of waging it, because its army has been exhausted and what it is doing in Gaza cannot be done in Lebanon,” said the head of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc, the political wing of Hezbollah, on Tuesday.

Mohammad Raad MP added that Israel is in trouble and trying to threaten to expand the war to cause “psychological harm”, but the resistance fighters “harm it, blind it and deafen it” every day, leaving it “incapable” of moving its positions and command headquarters. “We know the enemy’s strengths and weaknesses, and Israel knows that we know its weaknesses, so it avoids provoking us for fear of retaliation.”

The Hezbollah MP said that Israel must stop its “evil” against Lebanon and Gaza, adding that the movement is ready for a ceasefire on the Lebanon front only when Israel stops its aggression against Gaza. “Nobody expects that the further killing of children and women in Gaza will bring the [Israeli] enemy victory. Rather, it is making its image uglier before the world.”

Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging deadly fire since early October last year, shortly after the regime launched a genocidal military offensive against the Gaza Strip following a surprise cross-border incursion by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.

The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its retaliatory attacks as long as the Tel Aviv regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed or wounded 130,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Hezbollah officials have said repeatedly that they do not want a war with Israel, while stressing that they are prepared for it if it does begin.

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