Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that the Resistance party believes it should always be ready for war, assuming that the Israeli enemy will attack Lebanon “one of these days.”
 
Sheikh Qassem speaking to Saudi daily Al-Watan, Sheikh Qassem noted that Israel’s language is militant. “If Israel does not enter into warfare it is only because it can’t do so or its evaluation is negative,” his eminence said.
 
“That’s why we at Hezbollah are taking steps to prepare for a war to break out at any moment,” Sheikh Qassem pointed out.
 
When asked whether the armament violates UN Security Council Resolution 1701, Sheikh Qassem responded that “Israel is the one arming itself”.
 
“We see Resolution 1701 as obliging us not to deploy weapons south of the Litani River and maintain a peaceful atmosphere without operations. All of this is happening,” his eminence said. “We see ourselves as carrying out this resolution daily while Israel violates our airspace on a daily basis and infiltrates the border. It is the one violating Resolution 1701.”