BEIRUT (Dispatches) – 
Hezbollah deputy head Sheikh Naim Qassem here Monday pledged that the Lebanese resistance group will continue the path paved by its late leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and will achieve the goals he set.
Qassem delivered his first televised speech since Nasrallah’s martyrdom in an Israeli bombing in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital using U.S.-provided weapons and munitions.
“Despite the loss of our leaders and the great sacrifices, we will not renounce our stances and the resistance will continue to assist Palestine. We have persevered despite all the attacks,” he said.
“We will continue Nasrallah’s path and Hezbollah will continue its goals. Hezbollah’s operations continued after its late leader’s assassination,” he added.
The Hezbollah deputy chief offered his deepest condolences to Imam Mahdi, the Twelfth and last Shia Imam, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, resistance fighters across West Asia, Lebanon, and freedom-loving peoples worldwide over the loss of Nasrallah.
“With the martyrdom of Sayyed Nasrallah, we lost a brother, a dear friend and a great leader. He was present on the battlefield and pursued the line of jihad for many years. He followed the path of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, and his successor Ayatollah Khamenei.
“Sayyed Nasrallah was the leader of freedom fighters, and his primary goal was the liberation of Palestine and holy Al-Quds. Know that he will always be among us,” he said.
Sheikh Qassem said Zionist forces are killing and committing massacres against civilians across Lebanon, and are attacking civilian and health facilities.
“The Zionist regime does not face off resistance fighters, but it rather kills innocents. The U.S. is a partner with Israel, through unlimited military support – culturally, politically, financially,” he said. 
Elsewhere in his remarks, the top Hezbollah official underlined that Israel is delusional if it thinks that it can achieve its goals through massacres and Western support.
Sheikh Qassem stated that Hezbollah fighters are prepared and “we will emerge victorious in case the Israeli enemy decides to launch a ground invasion of Lebanon.”
“Israel will not be able to degrade our military capabilities,” he said.
He said after the martyrdom of Sayyed Nasrallah, Israel’s Ma’ale Adumim settlement was targeted and millions of settlers in Haifa had to take refuge in shelters. 

 been displaced by the violence and accused Israel of conducting “criminal operations daily” across the country.
Mikati said about 118,000 displaced people were staying at 778 designated shelters, but that the real number was much larger, with many people staying with friends and relatives or renting out their own places.
“One million people moved from one place to another in days in the largest displacement crisis in the region,” he said.
Ali Hijazi, Lebanon director for the international charity Lutheran World Relief, said displaced Lebanese people had to leave their homes in minutes with few belongings as they fled for their lives.
“People are really now living in fear and they are really going to the unknown,” Hijazi told Al Jazeera.
 “They are really scared and worried whether this crisis will last longer … they are really in limbo.”
The Lebanese group has said it would continue its attacks on Israeli bases in the north of the country until Israel ends its Gaza invasion.