Hezbollah: US elections are ‘insignificant and worthless’

Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said yesterday the group will continue to strike Israel with missiles and drones, indicating that it believes the US elections are both “insignificant and worthless”.

“We do not consider the US elections to be of any importance, regardless of whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump prevails. Their outcome is inconsequential to us,” Qassem said in a televised address commemorating the fortieth day since the group’s late Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated in an Israeli air strike on southern Beirut.

He added that Hezbollah has tens of thousands of trained fighters who can confront and stand firm in the face of the invading Israeli occupation forces, adding that the group also has the necessary capabilities to continue fighting for a long time.

“Only the field can stop the aggression across the borders in addition to the Israeli home front,” he said, stressing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to set a date for the end of the war because he has an expansionist project that extends beyond occupying Gaza, Palestine and Lebanon to the Middle East.

He explained that the war on Lebanon aims to end Hezbollah’s presence, occupy Lebanon and make it similar to the West Bank, and then reshape the Middle East.

“We will ensure that [Israel] understands it is not a victor on the battlefield, but rather a loser,” Qassem said.

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