Hezbollah proclaimed its “victory” over Israel, as a ceasefire ending two months of open war in Lebanon between the Israeli army and the Lebanese movement came into force on Wednesday.
Hezbollah proclaimed its “victory” over Israel this Wednesday, November 27, a few hours after the entry into force of a ceasefire which ended two months of open war in Lebanon between the Israeli army and the Islamist movement. .
“The victory of Almighty God was the ally of the just cause,” Hezbollah said in a statement, adding that its fighters “will remain fully ready to face (…) the attacks of the Israeli enemy,” reported BFMTV.
Israel failed to “occupy and settle cities”
The Hezbollah statement claims that Israeli forces have failed in their “attempts (…) to occupy and settle in towns”, to prevent Hezbollah attacks or to “establish a military and security buffer zone , as the enemy hoped”.
Hezbollah fighters targeted Israel “until the last day of the aggression,” the text adds. The truce agreement stipulates that Hezbollah withdraws north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers from the border with Israel, and dismantles its military infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
It also provides that the Israeli army has 60 days to gradually withdraw from Lebanon.
