Hezbollah chief Qassem says Israel failed to eradicate resistance movement

The Hezbollah secretary-general has said the occupying Israeli regime has failed to eradicate the resistance front through various atrocious campaigns.

Sheikh Naim Qassem stated this in a televised speech, noting that the Zionist enemy seeks to exterminate any form of resistance that confronts its expansionist ambitions across the region.”

He further said that Israeli atrocities to eliminate the resistance front have been unsuccessful. He added that it substantiates the fact that such brutalities could not be viewed as achievement at all.

Qassem noted that the group’s retaliatory rocket and drone attacks on illegal Israeli settlements in the northern parts of the occupied territories drove tens of thousands of residents to seek refuge in shelters. The only pain they (the Israeli regime) could inflict upon us was the targeted killing of our leaders.

He highlighted that the group anticipated the Israeli military aggression on Lebanon both before and after the surprise and large-scale operation by Gaza-based resistance groups, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, against the Zionist entity on October 7 last year, but did not know about the exact timing.

He said the key factors behind our victory were the steadfastness of resistance fighters, and the sacrifices made through the blood of martyrs. Surrender and humiliation have no place in our lexicon as Hezbollah’s resistance is fierce and spirited.