TEHRAN - Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has thrown a spotlight on the failure of Israel’s ground offensive in the Mediterranean country. 

“After 45 days of bloody fighting, the enemy is still unable to occupy a single Lebanese village,” Hezbollah media chief Mohammad Afif said. 

He was speaking at a press conference in the Dahiyeh neighborhood in the south of the capital Beirut on Monday.

He dismissed Israel’s claims about the depletion of Hezbollah’s missile stockpiles.

“Our missile stockpiles are complete in the same way that they were on the first day [of the struggle against the Israeli regime],” Afif said as he referred to Hezbollah’s continued firing of projectiles towards Tel Aviv and Haifa. 

Israel launched a massive bombing campaign in Lebanon on September 23 which was followed by a ground invasion of the country’s south on October 1.

Hezbollah and Israel began trading fire a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Gaza on October 7, 2023. Netanyahu issued the order after Hamas conducted Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, a surprise military attack in southern Israel which dealt a severe blow to the occupation regime.

Nearly 3,200 people have been killed and more than 14,000 others wounded in Israeli attacks in Lebanon since October last year. 

Hezbollah has retaliated by firing missiles and drones toward Israel’s strategic and military positions. 

Hezbollah fighters have also killed dozens of Israeli troops inside Israel and on the battlefield in southern Lebanon.