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BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Deputy Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, Naeem Qassem, said on Tuesday that the group supports efforts to reach a cease-fire​​​​ in Lebanon.

Qassem, a senior figure in the Iran-backed group for more than 30 years, said from an undisclosed location, “We are the people of the field and it’s war whoever shouts first.” We will not scream first,” indicating that the group’s capabilities are fine despite the “painful strikes” that Israel has led.

He said in a 30-minute televised speech that Hezbollah supports the efforts of Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who is an ally of the group, to reach a ceasefire, but he did not say for the first time that he would reach a truce in Gaza. it is a precondition for the shooting of Israel to stop.

The speech comes a few days after Hezbollah leader Hashem Safi al-Din was targeted in an Israeli attack and 11 days after the assassination of the group’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah.

Qassem was appointed deputy secretary-general in 1991 under former Hezbollah Secretary-General Abbas al-Musawi, who was killed in an Israeli helicopter attack in 1992, and remained in the post when Nasrallah assumed leadership of the group.

Qassem has long been one of Hezbollah’s main spokesmen and has given interviews to foreign media as cross-border hostilities with Israel have escalated over the past year.

Qassem’s speech on Tuesday was his second since the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in September.

Qassem is the first member of Hezbollah’s senior leadership to make televised statements after Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern outskirts of Beirut on September 27.

Qassem said on September 30 that Hezbollah would choose a successor to Nasrallah “as soon as possible” and that it would continue its war with Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians.

He said in a speech that lasted 19 minutes at the time, “What we are doing is the minimum as part of the continuation plan of the battle… We know that the battle could be long, and the options are open to us, and we will face any eventuality.”

Qassem was born in 1953 in Beirut to a family from southern Lebanon. Lebanese Shiite activists. He participated in the meetings that led to the creation of Hezbollah, which was formed with the support of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in response to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

Qassem has been working as the general coordinator of Hezbollah’s campaigns in the parliamentary elections since the organization first ran in 1992.

In 2005, Qasim prepared a book in which he narrated the history of Hezbollah, and this book was described as “a (rare) view from inside the group.”

Qasim wears a white turban in contrast to Nasrallah and Safi al-Din, whose black turbans symbolize that they are descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.

(Keystone-SDA) More than 1,000 people from all over Switzerland met on Saturday in Zurich-Oerlikon for the March for Läbe to demonstrate the “right to life”. Their march through the neighborhood was interrupted several times by a velodemo on the left.

This year, the organizers of the March for Läbe called for a gathering at the Oerlikon train station and a walk together through the neighborhood under the motto “Stand up for life”. Everyone has the right to live.

The road to protecting unborn life is long, said EPP National Councilor Marc Jost. “It’s about life, we have to work for it.” In the rally call, the organizers wrote that Switzerland needs better conditions for expectant mothers and offers of help to families in need – so that every child can live. Around 30 babies in Switzerland are “killed before birth” every day.

As usual, the Swiss march for Läbe took place on Saturday evening before the Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer. And it was accompanied by a large police presence again – because of the fear of the left.

Around 200 participants in a velodemo crossed the march route several times, chanting “My body, my decision” and delayed the march.

Zurich city police took note of the incident in a statement on Saturday evening. After calls for disruptive actions, more than 100 people were searched and turned away in the area around the march. Five people were temporarily taken to a station for further clarification.

The organizers estimated the number of participants in a statement at around 1,600 people.

London, August 30 (EFE).- The London Stock Exchange closed this Friday’s session almost flat, with a slight decrease of 0.04%, dragged down by the poor performance of some listed companies in the mining sector and oil companies.

London’s main index, the FTSE-100, known as ‘footsie’, fell 3.01 points to 8,376.63 points.

However, the secondary indicator, the FTSE-250, which includes smaller companies, ended the day positively, with a growth of 55.46 points, 0.26%, to 21,086.54 units.

The company that registered the worst result on the London stock market was the mining company Fresnillo, which fell 2.34%, as did other listed companies in the sector such as Anglo American, Endeavor Mining or Rio Tinto, which also ended there the red, except for Antofagasta, which ended positively.

The ‘top 3’ of the day’s losers were completed by the hospitality company Whitbread, with a decline of 1.77%, and the investment fund Intermediate Capital Group, which removed 1.67% from the value of its shares.

On the positive side, real estate company LondonMetric Property ended up with the biggest increase in the British election, of 2.56%, followed by online betting company Entain, which grew by 2.22%, and the developer Land Securities Group, which added 2.03%. . EFE

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