Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant warned on Saturday the Lebanese Hezbollah, which is an ally of the Palestinian Hamas, that Beirut could suffer the same fate as Gaza, if the pro-Iranian organization drags Lebanon into the war.
“What we can do in Gaza, we can do in Beirut,” Galant said during a tour of northern Israel near the border with Lebanon.
“If Hezbollah makes such mistakes here, the first to pay the price will be the citizens of Lebanon,” Galant warned, adding:
“I am saying here to the people of Lebanon that I have already seen the people of Gaza walking with white flags along the coast and moving to the south. Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into a war that could happen and they are making mistakes.”
He said that the Israeli Air Force is using less than one-tenth of its forces in the Gaza Strip and is also facing north.
The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said in the meantime that his organization has started using new weapons in its daily attacks against Israel.
“During the past week, the resistance action on the Lebanese front increased, the number of operations, the number of targets, as well as the weapons used,” said Nasrallah, according to France Press.
“For the first time in the history of the resistance in Lebanon, we are using suicide drones to attack targets in Israel,” Nasrallah said in a televised address and suggested that Bukran rockets, which can carry 300 to 500 kilograms of explosives, had been used in recent days.
He said that “Kacusa” rockets were also used in the attack on Israeli territory after the death of a Lebanese woman and her three granddaughters, in an Israeli attack on November 5 in southern Lebanon.
At least 91 people, mostly members of Hezbollah, as well as 11 civilians have been killed since the beginning of the cross-border conflict. Six soldiers and two civilians were killed on the Israeli side, Beta reports.
