The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah affirmed this Saturday that Israel will pay a high price every time it launches a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and affirmed that it already has troops on the border, said deputy leader Naim Kassem.
These statements came as Israel bombed and carried out drone strikes in southern Lebanon.
At the same time, Hezbollah fires rockets and missiles at Israel.
“We are trying to weaken the Israeli enemy and let them know that we are prepared,” Naim Kassem said.
Hamas officials have said that if Israel begins a ground offensive in Gaza, Hezbollah will join the fighting.
Exchanges of fire along the Lebanese-Israeli border have increased in the past two weeks and since the attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which killed more than 1,400 civilians and soldiers in southern Israel.
Retaliatory airstrikes in Gaza killed more than four thousand Palestinians.
There are concerns that Hezbollah, backed by Iran and which has a weapons arsenal consisting of tens of thousands of rockets and missiles, as well as different types of drones, may try to open a new front in the war between Israel and Hamas with an attack massive. stopover in northern Israel.
The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah is an ally of Hamas.
“Someone believes that if they try to crush the Palestinian resistance, other resistance fighters in the region will not act,” Kassem asked in a speech at the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter.
“Today we are in the center of the battle. We are making achievements through this battle,” he added.
On Friday, the Israeli army announced the withdrawal from a border town where three residents were wounded in crossfire on Thursday.
An Associated Press journalist in southern Lebanon reported today that he heard loud explosions along the border near the Mediterranean coast.
Hezbollah reported that its fighters attacked several Israeli positions and also attacked an Israeli infantry force.
In turn, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency noted Israeli shelling in several locations and reported that a car directly hit the village of Houla.
Last night, shelling intensified around an Israeli army post outside the Lebanese village of Yaroun.
According to Hezbollah, one of its fighters was killed, bringing to 14 the total number of Lebanese militants killed since October 7, when the Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel with the release of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen, taking two hundred hostages.
Source: TSF
