Hezbollah deputy leader says confrontation with Israel is now ‘open-ended battle of reckoning’We have this snap from the Reuters news agency. Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem has said that the Lebanese militant group had entered a new phase of its conflict with Israel which he described as an “open-ended battle of reckoning”.“Threats will not stop us… We are ready to face all military possibilities,” he added.The comments were made earlier today during a funeral for a top commander killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday.The funeral of Hezbollah senior leader Ibrahim Aqil and Hezbollah member Mahmoud Hamad is being held in Beirut, Lebanon. Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/ReutersShareUpdated at 10.23 EDTKey eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureA summary of today’s developments
Lebanon’s Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets early on Sunday across a wide and deep area of northern Israel,…
