[News] Israel welcome to invade Lebanon, resistance is ready: Hezbollah MP

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 Israel welcome to invade Lebanon, resistance is ready: Hezbollah MP

Ibrahim Moussawi stated that Hezbollah has made preparations that Israeli
leaders 'can never imagine' should they try to invade Lebanon

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

JUN 17, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-welcome-to-invade-lebanon-resistance-is-ready-hezbollah-mp
Lebanese MP Ibrahim Moussawi (Photo credit: Sky News)

During a conversation <https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/1802387666819772521>
co-hosted by *The Cradle* on 16 June, Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese MP
Ibrahim Moussawi shared his perspectives on the ongoing war between Israel
and the Axis of Resistance in Lebanon and Gaza.

In relation to the possibility of a larger war erupting on the
Israeli–Lebanese border, Moussawi stated that neither Hezbollah nor Israel
wants a wider war but that the Islamic resistance is ready if Israel
decides to invade.

“If they want to come to Lebanon, they are welcome. We are waiting for
them. *Ahlan wa Sahlan*, as they say in Arabic,” he stated.

Moussawi noted that Israel is having difficulty managing the war in Gaza
and asked where Israel would get the troops to launch a much more difficult
invasion of Lebanon. “They can’t manage themselves in Gaza, and they want
to come here? In Gaza, they are not fighting. They are just bombarding and
sending drones. But if they do come, we are anxiously waiting for them. We
have made preparations that they can never imagine,” he added.

Regarding Hezbollah’s accomplishments in the war against Israel so far, the
Lebanese MP pointed out that the party’s daily attacks against Israeli
military positions and settlements have displaced some 200,000 Israelis and
paralyzed economic activity in areas that Israel long viewed as secure.

Moussawi stated, “In Lebanon, at the beginning of the war, many started to
mock and say our interference was not helpful. It is not doing anything.
But Israelis are the experts. Their leaders and their intelligence
apparatus have admitted that the front in northern Palestine has caused
great suffering for Israelis.”

He added that Hezbollah is fighting a “war of attrition” against Israel
along a 120-kilometer front line that has now lasted eight months and
involved thousands of operations.

“We are talking about huge losses they do not admit, but later they will.
It is unprecedented. It costs them a lot on the moral and military levels.”

When asked about recent Israeli threats to bomb civilians in the Lebanese
capital, Beirut, as the Israeli army did during its invasion of Lebanon in
1982, Moussawi explained, “That was in the past, not the present. Now, if
they destroy, we destroy. If they destroy our infrastructure, we will
destroy their infrastructure. The Israelis know very well that Hezbollah is
capable of targeting in a very precise way any place in occupied Palestine
with our ballistic missiles and drones, from here in the north to the
farthest point in the south. So if they think they can come to Lebanon, we
are ready for it. They are welcome.”

Regarding Hezbollah’s goals, Moussawi stated that the party must ensure the
resistance in Gaza is not crushed and that this goal has been successful
thus far. He said that over 70 percent of Hamas’ leadership and fighting
brigades are intact and that they have reorganized to overcome the losses
Israel has inflicted on them so far.

“I will tell you that Hamas has won the war. They can fight for months to
come, if not for years. They are ready to fight like on the 8th of
October.” Moussawi stated.

He added, “The kind of morale they have, the kind of belief they have,
cannot be defeated. All the Palestinians fighting for Hamas and Islamic
Jihad are heroes, superheroes. And even more so, the Palestinian women are
heroes. They continue to shed their blood and have never raised the white
flag. They never surrender or stab the resistance in the back.”
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