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Hezbollah parliamentary bloc leader: Terrorist group escalating to "preserve deterrence equation"

The leader of the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc in Lebanon, MP Mohammad Raad, said that "the resistance is escalating its operations against the Israeli enemy to a certain level in order to preserve the deterrence equation."

Escalating attacks to "preserve (the) deterrence equation." (Photo: Michael Giladi/Flash90)

MP Mohammad Raad, leader of the Lebanese Parliament's Hezbollah bloc, said that Hezbollah is escalating "its operations against the Israeli enemy to a certain level in order to preserve the deterrence equation," according to Lebanese news portal Naharnet.

Raad also said that the purpose of this equation was "so that the enemy does not fantasize that it has become capable and prepared to pounce on Lebanon and achieve its illusions in it."

The border war has intensified in the last few weeks, with Hezbollah subjecting various targets to dozens of rocket and drone attacks and with a number of attacks on sensitive military sites such as that on Mount Meron.

The IDF, meanwhile, has repeatedly struck Hezbollah structures and infrastructures and carried out targeted strikes against Hezbollah senior leaders and officers.

Efforts to lead to an end to the fighting have thus far made little headway.

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