Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Monday vowed to keep up the fight against Israeli “aggression,” on the anniversary of its militant group ally Hamas’s October 7 attack that triggered war in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah and the Lebanese have paid a “heavy price” for the Iran-backed group’s decision to open a “support front” for Gaza on October 8, but “we are confident… in the ability of our resistance to oppose the Israeli aggression,” the militant group says in a statement.
It calls Israel a “cancerous gland that must be eliminated, no matter how long it takes.”
Israel has stepped up its fight against Hezbollah in recent weeks as it seeks to push the group away from the border and allow the return of thousands of residents to their homes in the north.
Much of militant group leadership have been killed in strikes and the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) has begun a limited operation in southern Lebanon.
