Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem warned Saturday that if Israel continues to carry out strikes in Lebanon, and the Lebanese government does not act to stop it, then the terror group will take matters into its own hands.

His comments came a day after Israel carried out strikes in Beirut for the first time since a November ceasefire went into effect, after two rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanon on Friday morning.

In a speech marking Quds Day, Qassem insisted that Hezbollah was still committed to the November 27 ceasefire agreement that ended over a year of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group.

“We fully complied and we have no presence south of the Litani, but Israel did not abide,” Qassem declared. His comments contradict the IDF’s assessment that it has struck dozens of Hezbollah fighters operating south of the Litani River since the start of the ceasefire, in violation of the deal’s terms.

“Israel is carrying [out] aggressions every day. These are not violations. They are an aggression that crossed all limits,” the Hezbollah chief added.

He asserted that Israel appeared to be pressuring Lebanon into normalizing relations, and warned that Hezbollah would not accept such a scenario.

An Israeli official claimed earlier this month that Jerusalem was seeking to establish full diplomatic relations with Beirut, after a military-to-military meeting in the United Nations peacekeeping headquarters in Naqoura in which Israel and Lebanon agreed to open negotiations to delineate the border between the two countries.

Israel and Lebanon do not recognize one another, but signed a short-lived peace agreement in 1983. Israel in the past........

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