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<div class="gmail-inner-article-top"><h1 class="gmail-">Israel welcome to invade Lebanon, resistance is ready: Hezbollah MP</h1><p class="gmail-">Ibrahim
Moussawi stated that Hezbollah has made preparations that Israeli
leaders 'can never imagine' should they try to invade Lebanon</p><div class="gmail-another-name"><p><a href="https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9" style="color:rgb(164,4,4)">News Desk</a></p></div><div class="gmail-another-name" style="margin-top:16px"><p><span>JUN 17, 2024 - </span><font size="1"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-welcome-to-invade-lebanon-resistance-is-ready-hezbollah-mp">https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-welcome-to-invade-lebanon-resistance-is-ready-hezbollah-mp</a></font></p></div></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-img"><img src="http://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/86489106-2ca4-11ef-9f1b-00163e02c055.jpeg" alt="" width="394" height="222" style="margin-right: 0px;"><span>Lebanese MP Ibrahim Moussawi (Photo credit: Sky News)</span></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-content"><div class="gmail-row"><div class="gmail-col-md-8 gmail-col-sm-7"><div class="gmail-article-content"><span><p>During a <a href="https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/1802387666819772521">conversation</a> co-hosted by <i>The Cradle</i>
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.</p><p>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.</p><p>“If they want to come to Lebanon, they are welcome. We are waiting for them. <i>Ahlan wa Sahlan</i>, as they say in Arabic,” he stated.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.”</p><p>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.</p><p>“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.”</p><p>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.”</p><p>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.</p><p>“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.</p><p>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.”</p></span></div></div></div></div>
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