“We announce our total and sole responsibility for the Caesarea operation (…) which targeted the war criminal Netanyahu (…),” declared Mohammad Afif, head of media relations for the Islamist movement, on Tuesday, October 22. . Hezbollah.
While holding a press conference in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of the pro-Iran party, an Israeli attack targeted the area, according to the National Information Agency (official Ani).
“If we failed to reach you last time, we have many days ahead of us,” he told Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel’s prime minister accused Iran’s allies of trying to assassinate him and threatened to make them pay a “heavy price” after a drone struck his private residence.
The Iranian mission to the UN declared that “this action” had “been carried out by Hezbollah.”
The head of Hezbollah also acknowledged that the movement’s fighters were taken “prisoners” by Israel, without specifying their number.
“The enemy has the responsibility to preserve the lives of prisoners and their health,” he added, calling on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to guarantee this.
Furthermore, Mohammad Afif assured that Hezbollah’s financial company will fulfill its “commitments” to its savers, following the Israeli attacks that targeted several branches of the Al-Qard al-Hassan microcredit institution.
“I say on behalf of the administration of the Al-Qard al-Hassan institution that it had anticipated such an attack and had taken all precautions and will do everything within its duty to respect its commitments to savers,” he said.
Source: BFM TV