— 🇱🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: Hezbollah announced that its air defense units shot down an Israeli Elbit Systems 'Hermes 450' drone.

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— 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC, Admiral Ali Fadavi: 'The territory of occupied Palestine (Israel) is extremely small, it's so small that it isn't even the size of some of the smallest Iranian provinces – if we decided to, we could easily eradicate the Zionists at once'

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— 🇱🇧 Speech by Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary General, Naim Qassem.

— 🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'Israel is an expansionist entity, it wants to take over the region and the entire world'

— 🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'Israel acts with impunity because of the support of the United States'

— 🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'Lebanon has always been considered as part of Israel's expansion plans'

— 🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'Israel would not have been able to be directly in control of what it is now doing, if it wasn't for America, the Great Satan'

— 🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'Our resistance has two goals: 1. Resisting occupation 2. Liberating land.'

— 🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'America came to us and wanted to consider the Lebanese front a seperate matter from Gaza, to make an independent ceasefire, but we refused time after time'

— 🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'Some people blame us for the destruction in Lebanon – I ask them, who is the one dropping the bombs? Who is the one attacking us? It is Israel'

— 🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'It's only natural that there are sacrifices in such a confrontation. But these sacrifices made now, will bear their fruits for generations and decades to come – it is a deterrence for the future'

— 🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'Israel is bombing UNIFIL bases, churches, mosques, and trucks of the Red Cross'

— ❗️🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'We tell everyone to be at ease – we are the ones who will take the Zionist monster and put it back in its cage'

— ❗️🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'What started out as a support front, we have now entered a new phase, a direct war on Lebanon'

— ❗️🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'We are no longer a support front, we are at war with Israel'

— 🇱🇧 Naim Qassem: 'In our confrontations on the frontline, we have done exceptionally well – our fighters are face to face with the Zionists'