Hezbollah says priority is defeating Israel, but open to efforts to halt ‘aggression’

Hezbollah’s priority right now is defeating Israel militarily but it is open to any efforts to stop “the aggression,” the head of the terror group’s media office, Mohammad Afif, says.

“Tel Aviv is only the start, Israel has only seen so little,” Afif says in a televised press conference in the southern suburbs of Beirut with the rubble of destroyed buildings behind him.

“Our absolute priority now is to defeat the enemy and force them to stop the aggression. However, any internal or external political effort to achieve a cessation of aggression is appreciated as long as it is consistent with our comprehensive vision of the battle, its circumstances and its results.”

He denies that there were weapons stored in Beirut’s southern suburbs. He also claims that the massive secondary explosions seen after Israeli strikes were caused by Israeli-timed bombs to make it seem so. He promises residents of the neighborhood and those displaced from southern Lebanon and Bekaa that they would return soon.