MADRID 15 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, responded this Tuesday to the threats previously made by the deputy secretary general of the Lebanese Shiite party-militia Hezbollah, Naim Qasem, about possible attacks throughout the entire Israeli territory, and has predicted that, at Just as it happened with the group’s late leader, Hasan Nasrallah, “his day will also come.”
“I have listened to Naim Qasem’s speech, he is wrong just like his predecessors and those who came before them (…) Not only is he wrong, but I suppose his day will also come,” Herzog said from a hospital in Haifa, where he visited soldiers injured by Hezbollah’s attack on a military base this weekend.
Thus, the Israeli president has stressed that Qasem is wrong to “disrespect” the State of Israel and its population. “He is trying to make people forget the bitter truth: he and his friends have brought disaster to Lebanon,” Herzog stressed, according to ‘The Times of Israel’.
With these statements, the Israeli president has responded to Qasem, who hours before had warned that, after the latest escalation of Israeli bombings, the Islamist group now has the “right” to attack “anywhere” in Israel, therefore raising the possibility to extend the attacks to areas of the center and south of this country.
Qasem stated in a speech that, “from a defensive position”, all of Israel can now be a target, “it doesn’t matter if it is in the center, the north or the south”, hours after the group announced a new launch of rockets against the northern part. The Israeli Police have confirmed the impact of a projectile in the courtyard of a house in Kiryat Bialik, without causing any casualties.
Hezbollah’s ‘number two’, which has gained prominence after the death of Nasrallah in a bombing in Beirut, wanted to emphasize that the group remains “strong” despite the losses of recent weeks. In this sense, he has called on the Israeli population to distrust their political leaders when they question Hezbollah’s capacity.
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