Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem says group has scored 'divine victory' against Israel
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has claimed victory over Israel.
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Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem says his group won the conflict by preventing Israel from destroying it.
There has been no let-up in the fighting in Gaza, with the UN warning that rape and violence is escalating.
At least 40 people were killed in strikes on Thursday night and Friday in Gaza as Israel's military continued its offensive against Hamas.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has declared his organisation scored a "divine victory" in its year-long war with Israel that paused as part of a ceasefire deal last week.
In his first public comments since the deal was struck between the groups, Mr Qassem said the victory was on a bigger scale than when Israel and Hezbollah ended the 2006 Lebanon War.
"We won because we prevented the enemy from destroying Hezbollah … [and] from annihilating or weakening the resistance," he said.
Mr Qassem also vowed to continue cooperation with the Lebanese army to implement the terms of the ceasefire, which came into effect on Wednesday, local time.
Israel's campaign against Hezbollah left much of Lebanon's south, east and the suburbs of its capital Beirut in ruins.
Israel's strikes against Hezbollah escalated in September.
Israeli strikes also eliminated much of Hezbollah's leadership, including its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.
And earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed responsibility for a daring series of pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah in September.
Hundreds of the devices exploded, killing dozens of people and injuring thousands more.
Mr Netanyahu has vowed to resume attacks against Hezbollah if the terms of the ceasefire are violated.
UN warns of 'anarchy' in Gaza
Meanwhile, there are no signs of let-up in the ongoing conflict in Gaza, where more than 44,000 people have been killed since it began last year.
The war was sparked by Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,200 people.
The head of the United Nations Human Rights Office, Ajith Sunghay, is warning the humanitarian situation in Gaza is continuing to deteriorate "on a scale that has to be seen to be truly grasped".
"The breakdown of public order and safety is exacerbating the situation with rampant looting and fighting over scarce resources," he said.
"The anarchy in Gaza we warned about months ago is here."
Mr Sunghay said young women lacked safe spaces, and that reports of gender-based violence and rape, abuse of children and other violence had increased.
On Friday, a child and two women were trampled to death in a stampede at a bakery in the central Gazan city of Deir el-Balah, according to a local hospital.
"I don't know what happened", Osama Abu Luban, the father of the girl who died, told AFP.
"I went to the market with my daughter. She went to buy bread, and she barely managed to get a loaf of bread before being swept away by the crowd of women.
"They brought her out a lifeless body."
Eyewitnesses say they saw people pushing their way into the bakery before the tragedy.
Dozens killed in Israeli military strikes
At least 40 people were killed in Gaza as Israel continued its offensive against Hamas on Thursday night and Friday.
A refugee camp in Gaza was among the places struck, with local medics saying they recovered 19 bodies there.
Later on Friday, an Israeli air strike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a house in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said.
Others were killed in the northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, medics added.
There was no fresh statement by the Israeli military on Friday, but on Thursday it said its forces were continuing to "strike terror targets as part of the operational activity in the Gaza Strip".
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