News - Middle East: Hezbollah has warned that its response to another potential war by the Israeli regime against Lebanon would cause “large losses” on the Israeli side.

The Lebanese resistance movement’s Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Naim Qassem made the remarks during an address in the country’s capital Beirut on Saturday.

"We have no intention of going to war as we consider that this would not be useful,” he said.

"However, if Israel does unleash a war, we will face up to it,” Qassem added.

Hezbollah’s reprisal would also displace “hundreds of thousands” in the occupied Palestinian territories, the resistance official, meanwhile, noted.

The regime has been conducting daily attacks against Lebanon since October 7 after starting to wage a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah has been responding with strikes aimed both at retaliating against the regime and supporting the war-hit Gazans.

At least 50 Israeli forces and illegal settlers have died as a result of the retaliation so far.

As many as 22 of the fatalities were caused in late August after the movement fired a barrage of drones and more than 320 Katyusha rockets against the headquarters of Unit 8200, an Israeli Intelligence corps unit, and the Ein Shemer airbase in the occupied territories.

The strike served as the initial phase of Hezbollah’s retaliation over the regime’s assassination of Fuad Shukr, one of the group’s ranking commanders, who was martyred in a targeted killing operation conducted against Beirut in late July.

The regime waged wars against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006 only to be forced into beating humiliating retreats as a result of Hezbollah’s decisive defensive operations.

Since October, it has repeatedly been threatening to launch another one against the country.

On September 9, Nassim Vaturi, a member of Knesset (the Israeli parliament), alleged that the regime would launch a full-blown war on Lebanon “in a matter of days.”

“There is no other way,” he alleged, adding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was of the same opinion.

Former Israeli minister for military affairs Benny Gantz also claimed on the same day that the regime had to shift its focus from Gaza to Hezbollah and Lebanon’s border with the occupied territories.

Hezbollah, however, has invariably vowed in remarks comparable to those made by Qassem that it would defend the Lebanese soil with all its resources in the event of another wholesale Israeli military onslaught.

Source: Press TV