BEIRUT: Hezbollah is capable of repelling attacks by Israel in the south, and jihadists in the east, Hezbollah MP Nawar Sahili said Wednesday.
“The resistance [Hezbollah] is still fully ready to defeat any Israeli attack; and today it is much stronger than the enemy thinks,” Sahili said at an event in the southern Lebanese border town of Bint Jbeil.
“At the same time,” Sahili added,” the resistance is fighting a takfiri terrorist scheme” along Lebanon’s eastern border with Syria.
The comments were sent in a statement released by Hezbollah's media office Wednesday.
Sahili said fighting the takfiris was a “national duty” to defend Lebanon and the Lebanese. “And we are doing our duty without asking favors of others.”
His remarks came a week after Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah vowed to defeat Islamist militants while warning Israel that the resistance party stood ready for any confrontation despite the battle against extremists.
In a rare visit to the Bekaa Valley, apparently to boost morale, Nasrallah said that “victory will be the ally of the mujahedeen in their fight against takfiri and terrorist groups the same way it was their ally in the confrontation against the Israeli enemy.”
Hezbollah forces have been fighting alongside Syrian government troops for nearly two years against rebels determined to overthrow the regime of President Bashar Assad.
In a rare attack since the end of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in south Lebanon, Hezbollah detonated a bomb against an Israeli patrol in the border area of Shebaa Farms, wounding two soldiers.
The party said the Oct. 7 bombing was carried out in retaliation for the death of a Hezbollah member who was killed while trying to disable a spy device planted on Hezbollah's telecommunications network. Israeli jets reportedly detonated the device remotely.
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