Militant group, Hezbollah said Tuesday, October 8 it is now ready to engage in cease-fire talks with Israel, after suffering serious blows to its leadership and ranks in the last three weeks.
The terror group in Lebanon
made the announcement after firing more than 100 rockets at the Jewish state
hours earlier.
Hezbollah’s deputy secretary
general, Naim Qassem, publicly endorsed a truce with Israel, the first such
time the terror group has proposed a cease-fire not conditioned on the war in
Gaza.
“We support the political efforts led by
[Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih] Berri under the banner of achieving a
cease-fire,” Qassem said.
“Once the cease-fire is firmly established and
diplomacy can reach it, all other details will be discussed and decisions will
be made collaboratively,” he added.
Qassem’s announcement came
within hours of a massive barrage that sent more than 100 missiles soaring from
Lebanon at Israel’s northern city of Haifa, the third-largest metropolis in the
Jewish state.
Officials said one woman in her
70s was wounded by shrapnel from the attack, which came just a day after
another missile barrage on the city that left two others injured.
Hezbollah had previously vowed
that it would not stop attacking Israel until it agrees to end the war in Gaza,
with the Iran-backed terror group firing missiles over the border nearly every
day since Oct. 8.
Qassem is currently the
highest-ranking member in the terror group after Israel decimated its ranks in
recent months.
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan
Nasrallah was killed Sept. 27, with Israeli defense officials revealing Tuesday
that his planned successor, Hashem Safieddine, was likely also killed in an
airstrike last week before he could even be formally elected as a replacement.
Along with the two chiefs, the
IDF’s airstrikes in southern Lebanon and Beirut have killed more than a dozen
senior officials, including the top commanders of Hezbollah’s elite military
and missile firing units.
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