Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem:
– "We must all confront this danger; no one should say our country is far from the issue — everyone is targeted. The step now is in Gaza, and other steps may occur one day according to the Israeli perspective."
– "We must confront Israel each from our position according to our capacity and plan, and at the very least be convinced to remove the danger from ourselves, because the project will reach us according to Israel’s stated targeting."
– "Trump put forward a plan for the Gaza Strip, and it is a plan full of dangers."
– "Trump’s plan was initially presented in draft form to some Arab states, and meetings were held with Netanyahu in which amendments were introduced to make it fully suitable to Israel, with changes to a number of its points serving Israel’s ‘Greater Israel’ project — a project it seeks to achieve politically after failing to accomplish it by aggression and massacres."
– "We are facing a plan full of question marks, which some Arab officials themselves acknowledged, surprised by its content and demanding clarifications."
– "According to Trump’s plan, when administration is handed to an international party and responsibility is taken from the people of the land for running their affairs, and when captives are taken in the early days, then what have we achieved after all these battles?"
– "Trump’s plan aligns with the five principles Israel set out to end the war — it is an ‘Israeli’ plan dressed in American clothing."
– "There are four reasons behind the presentation of Trump’s plan: first, to absolve Israel before the global wave that condemned it, especially at the United Nations; second, because of the rising popular movement in American and European countries — the plan came as a way to soften the image."
– "We witnessed the Global Sumud flotilla that sailed from many countries, which exposes the moral decadence Israel has reached; we give a special salute to Spain for carrying this cause more prominently than other countries."
– "We will await the final word from the Palestinians, because what was presented is a plan, not an agreement, and nothing can happen except by agreement."
– "Through direct American intervention, they sought to build on the assumption that Hezbollah is weak and preoccupied with its situation and the destruction — therefore it would be possible to sideline us. But they were surprised that we participated in the state actively."
– "They expected us to respond with overreactions and to reciprocate insults in ways that would allow them to escalate, so they could say we were the reason for expansion, but we prevented that step."
– "Lebanon is at the heart of the storm because of Israeli aggression and overreach, the killing of children and engineers, and the targeting of any form of life, because they want to pressure the resistance and its people and make Lebanon powerless — and this is supported by the United States with all its capabilities."
– "They interfered in the structure of the state to achieve by politics what they failed to do by war, but it became clear that this was not possible because we have broad popular representation — that was a surprise to them."
– "They wanted a rift with the Lebanese Army, but the Army acted wisely and showed that there is a reasoned mind building Lebanon. Therefore the position of the Army and the resistance was clear: sedition is cursed and must never be between us."
– "True, there is no military parity between us and Israel, but we will surpass them because we are attached to our homeland, ready to sacrifice and wage jihad, and steadfast in the option of resistance. We have a great and historic people who cannot be defeated, and we have created a state of parity that enables us to confront their bullets and projects."
– "Reconstruction must be done, and the government committed to this in its ministerial statement — this is a responsible commitment and clear programs must be put in place to implement it."
The Cradle, https://t.me/thecradlemedia/43596