The secretary-general of the Lebanon-based movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah has issued a stark warning to Israel, saying that if it attacks the group’s positions, all Israeli “borders and forces will be at risk”.
In what he described as a clear “message” to Israel, the Hezbollah leader said that the latest escalation of tensions marked the “start of a new phase”, adding that the Lebanon-based movement “no longer” has red lines.
He vowed that Hezbollah would “do everything to prevent” attacks of that sort in the future, arguing that the time when Israel could bomb Lebanon was “over”.
In late August after Lebanese authorities claimed that Israeli drones had invaded its airspace, with one ostensibly crashing near the Hezbollah press center.
The blast reportedly caused significant damage to the Hezbollah press service’s building and left three people wounded. Hezbollah also vowed to attack “deep inside” Israel if the movement was targeted again.
Nasrallah continued by saying that “there is a new battlefield which is targeting Israeli drones in Lebanon’s skies” in an apparent reference to last week’s incident in which two alleged Israeli UAV’s crashed near Beirut.
His statement comes a day after the IDF and Hezbollah exchanged fire, with the latter launching numerous anti-tank missiles at Israeli positions, while Tel Aviv hit back by firing over 100 artillery shells into southern Lebanon.
Israel and Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in the summer of 2006, when Israeli forces invaded Lebanon after the militant group kidnapped two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.
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Until they detonated an atomic bomb in Beirut harbor, leaving the landscape like Heroshima and Nagasaki?
And still nobody seems to get it?