Warned of Hezbollah revenge, Israel threatens to destroy Lebanon in case of war with resistance movement

Fearing the threat of a Hezbollah reprisal, the Israeli regime alleges that it may target the Lebanese resistance movement and make the country feel the repercussions of such act of aggression.

Israel’s minister for military affairs Benny Gantz made the remarks on Thursday, commenting on an Israeli military analysis that the movement could initiate “days of battle” on the regime, Israeli paper The Jerusalem Post reported. The analysis had also warned that the group was exercising its idea of “the equation” that consisted in its seeking to retaliate for Tel Aviv’s aggression.

“Facing that type of threat,” the Israeli military was prepared to use whatever force necessary, Gantz said, “Hezbollah would take a serious hit, and Lebanon would feel it.”

He also acknowledged that a battle of such length “would be difficult for the Israeli home front.”

Last July, an Israeli airstrike led to the assassination of a Hezbollah member, named as Ali Kamel Mohsen Jawad, in Syria.

The movement that enjoys notable presence across Lebanon’s political and military spheres has vowed to avenge the assassination.

In two speeches that followed the assassination, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah unveiled significant advancements concerning the group’s capabilities.

He first announced that the movement had managed to acquire the prowess to take on Israel’s intrusive drones. Ever since, Hezbollah has brought down many of the aerial vehicles, while UAVs belonging to the group itself have twice captured detailed videos of Israeli military installations across the occupied territories.

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On another occasion, Nasrallah said his group had, within the space of just one year, doubled the size of its missile arsenal. He also noted that the entire occupied territories were within the range of the movement’s precision projectiles.

Most recently, the Hezbollah chief vociferously cautioned the Israeli regime against risking an attack on the resistance movement or any other target in Lebanon.

‘Stop playing with fire,’ Nasrallah warns Israel

Hezbollah’s secretary-general has warned that any Israeli act of aggression against Lebanon will be met by a strong response from the resistance movement.

“Should war erupt, Israelis will see events they haven’t witness since 1948. So, stop playing with fire. We are in the Resistance era,” Nasrallah said on Tuesday, referring to the year, in which the regime claimed existence after a wholesale Western-backed war against regional territories.

Israel and Lebanon are technically at war due to the former’s continued occupation of Lebanese territory, including Shebaa Farms that the regime overran in a subsequent war in 1967. 

Israel launched two more wars, exclusively targeting Lebanon, in the 2000s. Hezbollah forced it into a retreat on both occasions.

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