Hezbollah’s participation in the Israel-Hamas war has been as a ‘support front’ for its ally, Hamas, its deputy leader Sheikh Naim Kassem said.
The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has said the only sure path to a ceasefire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full ceasefire in Gaza.
“If what happens in Gaza is a mix between ceasefire and no ceasefire, war and no war, we can’t answer now, because we don’t know its shape, its results, its impacts,” Sheikh Kassem said during a 40-minute interview. Months of internationally brokered Gaza ceasefire talks have repeatedly failed. Hamas has demanded an end to the war, and not just a pause in fighting, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to make such a commitment until Israel realises its goals of destroying Hamas’s military and governing capabilities and brings home the roughly 120 hostages still held by Hamas.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, is far more powerful than Hamas and believed to have a vast arsenal of rockets and missiles capable of striking anywhere in Israel.
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