Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem congratulated Hamas on Saturday for achieving a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, arguing the development demonstrated the “persistence of resistance.”
“This deal, which was unchanged from what was proposed in May 2024, proves the persistence of resistance groups, which took what they wanted while Israel was not able to take what it sought,” he said.
In October, Qassem was elected to replace Hezbollah terror master Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Sept. 27.
The Israel-Hamas truce is set come into effect at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, according to the Qatari Foreign Ministry.
A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect on Nov. 27, ending nearly 14 months of hostilities.
Hezbollah launched some 16,000 rockets, missiles and drones at Israel since joining the war in support of Hamas on Oct. 8, 2023, a day after the Gaza-based terror organization’s massacre in the northwestern Negev.
Nearly 70,000 residents of northern Israel have been internally displaced due to the cross-border attacks from Lebanon.
During “Operation Northern Arrows,” 45 Israeli civilians and 79 IDF soldiers were killed, according to data from the Alma Research and Education Center, which monitors Israel’s northern fronts.
