Hezbollah Leader: We Will Not Resign On The Battlefield Due To Zionist Threats

Hezbollah soldiers prepare armed drones. (Wikimedia Commons/Tasnim News Agency)

JAKARTA - Senior official Hezbollah said the Lebanese militant group would not change its position in the struggle to support Palestine.

According to Palestinian Shehab news agency Sheikh Ali Damoush, deputy chairman of Hezbollah's executive council, the threat of Israeli Zionists will not change the equality of war.

Zionist settlers will return to their homes if the Zionist regime stops its aggression against the Gaza Strip, he said.

"We will not back down on the battlefield due to the Zionist threat," reported by IRNA September 10.

It is known, attacking each other between Israel and Hezbollah in the south of the Lebanese border has continued to increase since October 8, a day after the Israeli army launched a military campaign against the Gaza Strip, after Palestinian militant groups launched attacks on Israel's south.

Attacks are increasing each other every day, as Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon target Hezbollah commanders and the ceasefire has not yet been reached in Gaza.

Earlier, former Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Israel should shift its focus to Hezbollah and the Lebanese border, warning "we are too late on this."

"We have enough troops to confront Gaza and we have to concentrate on what is happening in the north," Gantz said, speaking in Washington, DC at a Middle Eastern forum.

In the forum, the man who once served as Israel's Chief of Staff Defense Forces (IDF) also said Iran and its proxies were "the real problem."

"It's time for the north to arrive and actually I think we're late on this," he said.

Gantz said Israel made a mistake by evacuating most of the country's northern territory as hostilities with Hezbollah flared up following a Hamas attack on October 7 that sparked the Gaza war.

"In Gaza, we have passed a decisive point in this campaign," he said.

"We can do whatever we want in Gaza. We have to try to reach an agreement to free our hostages, but if we can't do it in the near future, days or weeks, or whatever it is, we have to go north," Gantz explained.

"We are able to attack Lebanese countries if needed. The story of Hamas is old news," he added, saying instead "the story of Iran and its proxies across the region and what they are trying to do is the real problem."