On Tuesday, the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah said it now supports a ceasefire with Israel, a move which the US State Department said during a briefing showed they have been “getting battered.”
Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general, Naim Qassem, made the announcement during a televised address, hours after the terrorists fired over 100 missiles from Lebanon toward Haifa in Israel, the New York Post reports. He began by stating that his militants were fighting back and making progress, deterring Israeli ground incursions, despite “painful blows” they have experienced in recent weeks.
He then went on to state, “We support the political efforts led by [Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih] Berri under the banner of achieving a cease-fire,” according to a CNN translation. “Once the cease-fire is firmly established and diplomacy can reach it, all other details will be discussed and decisions will be made collaboratively,” he added. Up until this point, Hezbollah had vowed not to stop attacking the Jewish state until the war in Gaza ended, leading the US to believe the group is being destroyed by Israeli forces.
“For a year, you had the world calling for this ceasefire, you had Hezbollah refusing to agree to one, and now that Hezbollah is on the back foot and is getting battered, suddenly they’ve changed their tune and want a ceasefire,” US State Dept spokesperson Matthew Miller said, per Reuters. […]
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