Welcome to News Hour. I'm Celia Hatton coming to you on the BBC World Service

live from our studio in London. It's one year to the day when Hezbollah began airstrikes on Israel.

The militant group based in Lebanon backed its assault in support of the October 7th

Hamas attack on Israeli citizens. One year later the landscape looks far

different. Israel is widening its land operation inside Lebanon, it's aiming it says to

eliminate Hezbollah as a threat on its border.

Israel's military says one of its latest airstrikes on Beirut has killed another senior Hezbollah commander.

A military spokesman said

Suhel Husseini had been in charge of the group's logistics and had played a

crucial role in weapons transfers with Iran at Hezbollah has not confirmed his death.

And in the last few minutes we've had news that the deputy leader of Hezbollah has said he supports a call from Lebanon's parliament for a ceasefire with Israel.

Naim Kossam insisted that the group's military capacity remains intact, but this is

thought to be the first time Hezbollah has voiced support for a ceasefire without

tying it to a truce in Gaza.

Well, for more on this, let's turn to our correspondent in Beirut, Lena, Xinjab. Lena, let's start. this This is getting attention. Can you just tell us about the significance of his comments?

Yes, I think we need to look at the context when he made these comments.

So the speech today came a year after Hezbollah launched the attacks

on Israel in support of the Palestinian according to Hezbollah. It came also two weeks after the assassination of top leaders in Hezbollah sending

messages across that Hezbollah is weakened and cannot, you know, respond to Israel. so that's why Mr. Carson today is sending a message

to his supporter that they're still defined that they're still strong but also he you the, you know, what he calls the resistance fighters in the

South. He praised those who are supporting from Shia militias in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, and then he commemorated the leadership

and the efforts for ceasefire by the Speaker of the Parliament, Mr. Nabihbirri, who is also the second leader, Shia leader in Lebanon.

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