Hezbollah deputy leader says confrontation with Israel is now 'open-ended battle of reckoning&#

Lebanon's Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem said on Sunday (September 22) that the group has entered a new phase in its battle with Israel, which he described as an "open-ended battle of reckoning." "Threats won't stop us, and we don't fear the most dangerous possibilities. And we are ready to face all military scenarios," Qassem said during a funeral for a top commander killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday (September 20). Hezbollah said 16 members including senior leader Ibrahim Aqil and another commander, Ahmed Wahbi, were among those killed in the deadliest strike in nearly a year of conflict with Israel. Israel's army said it hit an underground gathering of Aqil and leaders of Hezbollah's elite Radwan forces, and had almost completely dismantled its military chain of command. The attack leveled a multi-storey residential building in the crowded suburb and damaged a nursery next door, a security source said. The death toll from that strike had risen to 45 on Sunday, according to the Lebanese health ministry. With at least 84 people killed in Lebanon over the past week, the conflict toll in the country since October has surpassed 750 during the worst Israel-Hezbollah flare-up since a 2006 war. (Production: Dina Sakr) For more ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmgUHWUpi2ioSp4xAP1SmAaf For more Breaking News & Live Coverage videos, click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmgG2ln-vtKXb-oLlGEZc3sR For more latest news and analysis from ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmg4pcvfM9a96rbUcLD_0P_U For more News Digital News Raw Cuts, click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmivfD9aJD-8k0SNcMqG2xdA Subscribe to the ABS-CBN News channel! - http://bit.ly/TheABSCBNNews Watch full episodes on iWantTFC for FREE here: http://iwanttfc.com Visit our website at http://news.abs-cbn.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abscbnNEWS Twitter: https://twitter.com/abscbnnews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abscbnnews #Hezbollah #LatestNews #ABSCBNNews