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Hezbollah's deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem, listens to a speech by then-leader Hassan Nasrallah on a screen in southern Beirut, June 19, 2024
HEZBOLLAH’S acting leader said today that even more Israelis will be displaced as its fighters extend its rocket fire deeper into Israel.
The warning came during a defiant televised statement by Sheikh Naim Kassem marking the anniversary of fighting that escalated into war last month.
Mr Kassem said that its military capabilities are still intact and that it has replaced all of its senior commanders after weeks of heavy Israeli bombing across large parts of Lebanon, including targeted strikes that killed much of its top command in a matter of days, alongside hundreds of bystanders.
ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
