Qassem urges supporters to secure 'resounding' win in polls despite Israeli attacks

Despite a rise in Israeli strikes on south Lebanon in recent days, Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has called on supporters to go out to municipal polls in the country’s south and secure a "resounding" victory.

“We will not give up a single grain from the soil of our generous south and we will not accept that the Israeli occupation stay on any inch of our land and country,” Qassem said in a televised address.

“Your heavy participation in the municipal and mayoral elections is part of the reconstruction process that we will follow up on with the elected municipalities and with the Lebanese state that should shoulder its responsibility,” Hebzollah’s leader added.

“Regaining the land of the South and rebuilding it and everything that has been destroyed in Lebanon is an inseparable part of the loyalty toward the blood of the martyrs, topped by the Ummah’s top martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, as well as toward the wounded and the captives whom we will work on freeing them,” Qassem went on to say.