Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah threatens unprovoked attacks on Israel

Nasrallah said, “If Israeli tanks come to Lebanon, they will not only be short of tanks but they will never have any tanks left.” “The deterrence missiles will target new Israeli settlements that have not been targeted before.”

The fighting on Israel’s northern border began just hours after a Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israeli communities outside the Gaza Strip, with Hezbollah launching rockets in support of Hamas. The fighting has ended in deaths on both sides, losses in agricultural and dairy farms, and the evacuation of border towns.

Israeli military leaders have been planning an invasion of Lebanon for months, although both sides have said they want to succeed in a diplomatic response. Hezbollah has long said it will not end its attacks unless there is a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

“Our front in Lebanon will not stop as long as aggression against Gaza, its people, and resistance in its various forms continues,” Nasrallah said on Wednesday.

Nasrallah struck a triumphalist tone in his speech, claiming that Israel’s economy had been hit by attacks on transportation in the Red Sea by the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen. He also said that thousands of Israeli infantrymen had suffered debilitating injuries.

According to Israeli casualties, more than 4,000 soldiers were injured, more than 600 of them seriously.

In a single day of border shelling, Israel reported that Hezbollah launched more than 65 projectiles into Israeli territory. Maximum was neutralized through air defenses, and false accidents were reported. The closest attacks were on several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon by Israel Security Forces.

During his lifetime, several Hezbollah commanders were killed through IDF heavy rocket attacks in retaliation.

The shelling along the Israel-Lebanon border and Hezbollah’s warnings come at a time when Israeli forces are stretched thin on other fronts.

Any grassroots incursion into Lebanon would pit the IDF against a larger and more well-supplied force in Hezbollah, which has recently been dealing with Gaza.

A group of hostage families in Israel has demanded that the Prime Minister provide an explanation for his alleged comments in the Knesset that there was a mistaken desire to speed up the trade. As a result “the hostages are suffering, but not dying.” A discussion board comment called these comments “deeply saddening for the families of the hostages but factually incorrect and dangerously irresponsible.” The crowd said that the lives of the hostages were in danger and the agreement should be signed immediately.

A parent of a hostage said before Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks On Wednesday he felt positive about the return of his daughter Liri Elbag, speaking later with the Israeli executive. “We had a meeting with Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer last week. They told us that the conditions have been created for a deal that can be realised,” said Eli Albagh, Liri’s father. “Dermer sent us off optimistically.”

Hostage Noah Argamani freed in June may join Netanyahu Israeli media reported that he would be leaving for the United States to deal with Congress in the future. Argamani will be accompanied by his father as well as other hostages and public contributors to the victims of Hamas’ October 7 attack.

Hamas and alternative militant teams deliberated and launched a “systematic” attack. Israeli civilians protested on October 7, the human rights monitor said in a report on Wednesday after several months of interviews with survivors, hostages, first responders and alternative observers. The rights group said the attack constituted various war crimes and crimes against humanity, including “deliberate and indiscriminate attacks against civilians”, the treatment of civilians as human shields, and cruel and inhumane treatment.

At least 38,794 civilians were killed and 89,364 Injured as conflict erupts in Gaza Gaza Fitness Ministry said. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of those killed were women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’ October 7 attack, including more than 300 infantrymen, and says that 326 infantrymen have been killed since the beginning of its military campaign in Gaza. .

Lior Soroka, Shira Rubin and Brian Pietsch contributed to this record.