By Global News Service
Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem delivered a televised speech on September 30, two days after Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated by Israel in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Qassem mourned Nasrallah. “We have lost a brother, father, and a great leader. Sayyed Nasrallah was the leader of the convoy of free fighters. His absolute priority was Palestine and Al-Quds,” he stated.
Qassem confirmed that “Hezbollah will go on with its goals and its battle.” He added that Hezbollah’s “system of command and control as well as the mujahideen [fighters] will continue to follow up and implement the alternative plans accurately, just like the late secretary-general used to do. All are ready on the battlefield.”
The Hezbollah leader confirmed that Israel was unable to harm the group’s military capabilities by assassinating Nasrallah and other leaders and warned that Hezbollah fighters are fully prepared for an Israeli ground incursion. Qassem stated, “the Israeli enemy is delusional when it thinks that the brutal massacres and the international backing will help achieve its goals.”
Qassem asserted the steadiness of Hezbollah despite Israeli attacks. “We have sacrificed a lot since the pager operations, the martyrdom of the commanders and the martyrdom of the leader [Nasrallah]. If this happens anywhere else with any organization across the world, it will collapse, but we did not. We are going on despite the pains and the sacrifices. We are going on because we have hope and we trust Allah almighty to be victorious,” he said.
from the Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service
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