TEHRAN- A senior official with the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has said that the Israeli military lacks the guts and fighting capability to face Hamas and other resistance forces in Gaza if Tel Aviv decides to undertake a ground invasion of the besieged region.

Sheikh Naim Qassem, the deputy Hezbollah chief, made the remarks on Friday in a meeting with Ebrahim Azizi, the visiting Vice Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Parliament, in Beirut.

On October 27, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote an analysis which said, “From Its Bunkers in Gaza, Hamas Is Rejiggering the Balance of Power in the Middle East”.

According to Sheikh Qassem, Hamas’s October 7 Operation al-Aqsa Storm dealt Israel a severe and comprehensive defeat that will go down in history.

Sheikh Qassem said that those who support Palestine have been distinguished from those who support the occupying regime and its aggression as a result of the al-Aqsa Storm Operation.

He also noted that ongoing clashes have demonstrated the courage of resistance fighters and revealed the barbarism of Israel, the United States, and its backers.

“The cowardly enemy cannot triumph through the massacre of civilians, as it is too weak to be able to emerge victorious in a battle on the ground against the resilient and steadfast heroes of Palestine.”

“The scenes on the battlefield reflect Israel’s hesitation and apprehension of a ground battle,” the Hezbollah official said, pointing to the steely determination of resistance fighters, ongoing rocket fire from Gaza as well as confrontations at Lebanon’s border.

He also cautioned, “Americans and Israelis do not know what days would befall them should the aggression continue.”

Sheikh Qassem also expressed his appreciation to Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution and Iran, for his unwavering support of the resistance front.

Since October 7, when fighters from Hamas and other groups began the operation against the occupying entity in response to its escalating crimes against the Palestinian people, the Israeli regime has been bombing Gaza. Since then, the death toll has exceeded 8,000 in Gaza. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv has been threatening land invasion.

On Friday, the UN General Assembly endorsed a resolution in favor of an urgent humanitarian truce in Gaza by an overwhelming majority.

The United States consistently vetoed pertinent resolutions in the UN Security Council, preventing action on four occasions. This led to a vote at the General Assembly. The regime’s heinous atrocities in Gaza have been excused by the U.S. and other Western allies of Israel as an act of “self-defense.”