Hezbollah boasts of getting new weapons in case of all-out struggle with Israel

Beirut. Hezbollah has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that would assist it assault extra essential positions inside Israel within the occasion of an all-out struggle, the Lebanese militant group’s chief warned Wednesday.

Hassan Nasrallah’s feedback got here because the months-long cross-border battle between Hezbollah and Israel seems to be reaching a fever pitch and a day after a senior US envoy met with Lebanese officers in his most up-to-date try and current effort to ease tensions.

“Now we’ve got new weapons. However I will not say what they’re,” he stated in a televised speech paying tribute to a senior Hezbollah commander who was killed final week in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. “When the choice is made, they are going to be on the entrance strains.”

Hezbollah has used regionally made explosive drones for the primary time for the reason that begin of the struggle between Israel and Hamas in October final yr, in addition to surface-to-air missiles, towards Israeli fighter jets.

Nasrallah stated in 2021 that Hezbollah had 100,000 fighters, however now he said that the quantity is far increased, with out giving additional particulars. He additionally famous that he has rejected provides from allied international locations and armed teams within the area that would add tens of hundreds of components to their ranks.

A virtually 10-minute video, allegedly filmed by a Hezbollah surveillance drone and launched Tuesday, exhibits elements of Haifa — a metropolis removed from the Israel-Lebanon border. In his speech Wednesday, Nasrallah stated Hezbollah has many extra movies — an obvious menace that it might hit websites inside Israel.

Israeli army chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi on Wednesday visited Israeli troopers tasked with air protection close to the Lebanese border and stated Israel is conscious of Hezbollah’s capabilities demonstrated within the video, and that it has options to these threats.

“The enemy solely is aware of a small a part of our capabilities and can see them in due time,” he asserted.

Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian group Hamas, has exchanged assaults with Israel virtually every single day for the reason that begin of the struggle within the Gaza Strip on October 7, with the purpose of driving Israeli forces away from the besieged enclave.