At commander’s funeral, Hezbollah deputy leader says fight with Israel is now ‘open-ended battle of reckoning’

Hezbollah deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem says that the terror group has entered a new phase of its battle with Israel, speaking during a funeral for a top commander killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday.

The fight with Israel is now an “open-ended battle of reckoning,” he says.

Photos and videos from the funeral for Ibrahim Aqil, the head of Hezbollah’s military operations and acting commander of the Radwan Force, show thousands of attendees, many wearing uniforms and carrying flags of the terror group.

At Ibrahim Akil's funeral, there is not a single Lebanese flag, only #Hezbollah flags. Hezbollah are not Lebanese and do not care about #Lebanon, they are an Iranian army in the service of the imperialist ambitions of the Iranian regime. https://t.co/kubogoRBZC pic.twitter.com/FdiVlJJOQM

— Ori Miller | אורי מילר (@orielishamiller) September 22, 2024