A high-ranking official with the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says a comprehensive ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is the sole way to bring calm to the volatile border between Lebanon and the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories.
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem, in an interview on Tuesday, reiterated his group’s stance on retaliatory strikes against Israel, linking their termination to the end of Israeli offensives against Palestinians in Gaza.
“Hezbollah would cease all operations, without any hesitation, if a ceasefire is declared in Gaza,” he said.
Sheikh Qassem further noted that a ceasefire agreement can determine the state of affairs both in the Gaza Strip, and along the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied lands.
The Hezbollah deputy chief added that Israel lacks the military prowess to launch a full-blown war on Lebanon, stressing that the occupying regime is yet to take a decision about the matter.
“It is up to Israel to decide whether it seeks a full-scale, limited or partial war,” Sheikh Qassem said, emphasizing that Hezbollah’s response will be crushing and will go beyond the rules of engagement that it has already set out.
