Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem has warned Israelis that the only solution to the current conflict is a ceasefire that will pave the way for north Israel residents to return, vowing his group will not be defeated, AFP reports.

“I am telling the Israeli home front: the solution is a ceasefire,” Qassem said in his third address since an Israeli strike killed former leader Hassan Nasrallah.

“I am not speaking from a position of weakness, because if Israel does not want [a ceasefire], we will continue,” he added.

“The resistance (Hezbollah) will not be defeated because this is its land,” he said.

“After a ceasefire via indirect agreement”, residents of northern Israel will “return to the north and the other steps will be drawn up”, Qassem said.

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