Israel’s Defense Minister said he will not allow the Hezbollah militia to destabilize the border.
Jerusalem:
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Thursday that Israel would fight Hezbollah “with all its strength” if the Lebanese armed group continued its “aggression” across the border.
“We will not allow the Hezbollah militia to destabilize the border and the region. If Hezbollah continues its aggression, Israel will fight it, with all its strength,” Gallant said in a message addressed to the people of Lebanon, according to a statement from your office.
Hezbollah has been trading almost daily fire with Israeli forces in support of ally Hamas since the Palestinian militant group’s attack on Israel on October 7 triggered the war in Gaza.
Fears of all-out war increased after Israel killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb last week.
Reminding the people of Lebanon of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, Gallant warned Lebanon to “learn the lesson of the past so as not to fall into a dangerous scenario in August 2024.”
The devastating 34-day war between July and August 2006 killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, most of them civilians, and about 160 Israelis, most of them soldiers.
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