Hezbollah claims to be prepared to “use new weapons” in its confrontations with Israel

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May 17. (EUROPA PRESS) –

A senior official of the Shiite Hezbollah party-militia stated this Friday that the group is prepared to “use new weapons” against the Israeli Army, within the framework of the fighting for more than seven months on the border following the attacks. executed on October 7 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) against Israeli territory.

“The resistance on the southern border has shown that it has many options on the battlefield,” said the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Hashem Safiedine, according to the Lebanese news portal Naharnet. “If the enemy wants to continue the fight, we are prepared to use new weapons,” he stressed.

“We have multiple options with a guarantee of success and exhausting the enemy,” he said, before highlighting that the conflict in the Gaza Strip and on the border between Israel and Lebanon “has great implications.” “It shows the fragility and apparent confusion of the Israeli enemy,” he concluded.

Hezbollah, an Iran-backed group with significant political clout in Lebanon, has launched hundreds of projectiles, drones and anti-tank missiles at Israel in recent months, although on Thursday it carried out its first drone airstrike from space. Israeli air. Days earlier, it intercepted an Israeli ‘spy balloon’ with the use of projectiles.