‘Hezbollah’s retaliation will be much greater than what Israel could imagine: Top official

A senior Hezbollah official says the Lebanese resistance movement’s surprise retaliation for the ongoing Israeli acts of aggression and assassinations of resistance figures in the Arab country will be far beyond the Zionist regime’s imagination.

Vice President of the Executive Council of Hezbollah Sheikh Ali Damoush said on Friday that the recent unveiling of the Imad 4 underground missile facility indicated that Hezbollah has advanced capabilities that could be used in any reprisal attack against the Israeli regime.

“The showcase of the sophisticated Imad 4 underground missile facility sent a clear message to the Israeli enemy that the capabilities, potentials, and surprises that Hezbollah possesses are much greater than what it can imagine,” he said.

"Therefore, any act of adventurism against Lebanon will end in a humiliating defeat for the Zionist entity, and will be much more catastrophic that what it suffered in August 2006,” he added.  

He added that simmering tensions in West Asia are due to Israel’s insistence on perpetrating more crimes and continuing the genocidal war in Gaza, lambasting Washington for turning a blind eye to such facts.

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Lebanon’s resistance movement revealed the “Imad 4” facility in a video released by its Military Media outlet.

“The United States would have better exerted pressure on [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu than to press Iran and Hezbollah and seek to dissuade them from responding to the crimes of the Zionist enemy,” Damoush stressed.

“All the pressures and threats that we are experiencing will not discourage us from retaliating against Israeli acts of aggression and firmly supporting Gazans,” the top Hezbollah official pointed out.

Damoush further noted that Israel cannot escape punishment for its crimes in Lebanon anymore, as the era of hit-and-run is over.

“Hezbollah is fairly committed to its pledge to respond to the Israeli crime of assassinating great resistance commander Fuad Shukr” in an airstrike on a building in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh on July 30, he underscored.

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has vowed retaliation for the act of terror.

Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging deadly fire since early October last year, shortly after the regime launched the genocidal war against the Gaza Strip in response to a surprise operation by the Palestinian Hamas resistance group.

The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its retaliatory attacks as long as the Israeli regime continues its war on Gaza, which has so far killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in the besieged territory.

Hezbollah officials have repeatedly said they do not want a war with Israel while stressing that they are prepared in case it occurs.

Two Israeli wars waged against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006 were met with strong resistance from Hezbollah, resulting in the retreat of the regime in both conflicts.

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