Hezbollah deputy head: Israel ‘in no position’ to push us northward nor let displaced residents go home

The deputy leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group claims Israel is “in no position” to force the Iran-backed group’s gunmen away from the Israel-Lebanon border and to return home tens of thousands of displaced residents of northern Israel.

Naim Qassem is quoted by Arabic media as telling a group of supporters in Beirut that Israel is “putting forward many proposals” related to northern Israel and southern Lebanon “and is trying to show that it has the options to carry out an action that helps the settlers return to the north in a safe way, and to keep Hezbollah and the resistance away from the south.

“We tell them: Israel is not in a position to impose its options,” he says, arguing that Israel must stop the war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza in order to stop the near-daily border skirmishes with Hezbollah.