Hezbollah chief says group would stop fighting with Israel after Gaza ceasefire

Hezbollah’s deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem (Bilal Hussein/AP)

The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has said the only sure path to a ceasefire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full ceasefire in Gaza.

“If there is a ceasefire in Gaza, we will stop without any discussion,” Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said in an interview with The Associated Press at the group’s political office in Beirut’s southern suburbs.