Israeli forces and Hezbollah exchanged fire across the Lebanese border on Thursday, drawing a warning from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“If Hezbollah decides to open an all-out war, then with its own hands it will turn Beirut and southern Lebanon into Gaza and Khan Yunis,” Netanyahu said.
Israeli warplanes carried out strikes in Lebanon after a 60-year-old man was killed by a Hezbollah-launched anti-tank missile that landed in a northern border town. The IDF “also returned fire to several other locations in southern Lebanon where strikes at Israel originated from earlier this afternoon,” according to the Times of Israel.
NDTV:
Netanyahu delivered the warning during a visit to the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces’ northern command, which oversees units that have traded fire with Hezbollah along the border with Lebanon in the weeks since Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7. He praised military reservists’ “great spirit in their readiness for battle.”
His threat referred to the widespread destruction that Israel’s military has unleashed in the northern Gaza Strip in retaliation to the attack by Hamas, which is labeled a…
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