Naim Qassemhead of the armed group Hezbollah, threatened to attack the capital of Israel during a speech shown this Wednesday. The city of Tel Avivv set off its alarms before this statement.
The leader of the group Middle East He said: “The response must be expected in the center of Tel Aviv.” This warning was given after the military operations deployed by the Israel Defense Forces during the last few days over three districts of the center of Beirut.
In one of these raids, Hezbollah’s spokesman, Mohammed Afif, and four members of his press team. This was the main event that triggered the threat.
In this way, Qassem fervently stated that Israel cannot impose its conditions on Hezbollah and that “the Israeli enemy He cannot enter Lebanese territory whenever he wants“. For him, “Israel attacked the heart of the capital, Beirut, so you must wait for a response in the center of Tel Aviv”.
The death of Mohammed Afif
Mohammed Afif, the spokesman and media chief of the armed group, was killed in a bombing on the headquarters of the Baath Arab Socialist Party located in it Lebanon. The incident occurred last weekend.
The spokesman was in the building that received the bombs coming from the Israeli army, which caused its fatal end. “Muhamad Afif fought with weapons and did not lead any military unit of Hezbollah, but rather led a press office,” he added. Ali Hijazi, the party secretary.
Closing his speech, Naim Qassem reported that Hezbollah had reviewed the ceasefire proposal which had been written by USAtrying to end the confrontations. In this sense, he stressed that the cessation of fighting was in Israel’s hands.
The Lebanese leader’s words took place in a television speech in which he also indicated that lThe organization works both “in the field of negotiations” for a truce and on the battlefieldwhere it will not pause its actions while awaiting a result in the diplomatic field.
Who is Naim Qassem
Hezbollahthe armed group of Lebanon which has the support of Iranchose Naim Qassem as their new leader, replacing Hassan Nasrallahhis predecessor found dead after a bombing in Beirut last month. It is about a wealthy sheikh, and a high-ranking figure in the movement.
Shortly after announcing the appointment of its new leader, The command launched at least 50 rockets from Lebanon against the north of the country led by Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to emergency services Israel, That offensive caused the death of a man. Some of the rockets were intercepted, but several fell in the city of Maalot Tarshiha.
Unlike his predecessor Nasrallah, the new leader He is not a descendant of the prophet Muhammadand that’s why he wears a white turban.
However, Qassem’s name already has history, since For more than three decades it was the second in order of importance of the Shiite group, and knew how to publicly face it on countless occasions.
In 1991 he was appointed deputy chief by the then general secretary of the armed group, Abbas al-Musawiwho was killed in an Israeli helicopter attack the following year.
Then, with Nasrallah’s rise to leader, Qassem remained in his position. Thus, for a long time it was one of the main spokespersons for Hezbollahgranting interviews to foreign media outlets, even as cross-border hostilities with Israel escalated.
Source: Ambito
