The Times of Israel reports: “In a televised address, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Wednesday said his terror group’s resumption of rocket attacks on Israel this week is a response to Israel’s continued presence and airstrikes in Lebanon since the November 2024 Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal.
The speech came amid the Lebanese government’s searing accusations that the Iran-backed proxy is dragging Lebanon into a regional war, after the US and Israel launched a bombing campaign on Iran that the Islamic Republic has responded to with missile and drone strikes across the region.
‘By God, how strange you are,’ Qassem said in the speech, addressing the Lebanese government. ‘What is your response to the wide-scale aggression?’
But he also said that the renewed rocket attacks on Israel ‘are a response to 15 months of violations against us, including the targeting of the great religious authority,’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader who was killed at the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign on Saturday…”
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