The head of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group has threatened Israel with an all-out war. The Lebanon-based Shia-Islamist group will unleash a war with “no restraint and no rules and no ceilings” against Israel, Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah declared Wednesday.
There is “no place in [Israel] that would be spared our rockets and drones,” Nasrallah, whose terrorist group has been armed with thousands of rockets and missiles by the Iranian regime, boasted.
Hezbollah chief’s call for an all-out war on Israel is a big blow to President Joe Biden’s policy of appeasement toward Hezbollah and its puppet masters in Tehran.
Nasrallah’s threats come days after the Biden administration told Israel ‘not to escalate’ tensions with Hezbollah despite the Lebanon-backed terror group intensifying cross-border rocket and drone attacks, causing tens of thousands of Israelis to flee their homes in the north. Hezbollah has stepped up attacks on Israel following the October 7 massacres by Hamas, an allied Iran-sponsored terror group.
Nasrallah also threatened the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus if it supported Israel in case of a military conflict.
Reuters reported terror chief’s threats:
The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Wednesday that nowhere in Israel would be safe if a full-fledged war breaks out between the two foes, and also threatened EU member Cyprus for the first time and other parts of the Mediterranean.Hezbollah has been trading fire with Israel for more than eight months in parallel with the Gaza war. On Tuesday, the Iran-backed group published what it said was drone footage of sensitive military sites deep in Israeli territory.In a televised address on Wednesday, Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said “there will be no place safe from our missiles and our drones” in Israel in the event of a broader war.The group also had “a bank of targets” that it could target in precision strikes, he said.Israel “knows that what also awaits it in the Mediterranean is very big … In the face of a battle of this magnitude, it knows that it must now wait for us on land, in the air, and at sea,” Nasrallah added.Nasrallah also threatened Cyprus – the EU member state in closest proximity to Lebanon, with which it has cordial relations – accusing it of allowing Israel to use its airports and bases for military exercises.”The Cypriot government must be warned that opening Cypriot airports and bases for the Israeli enemy to target Lebanon means that the Cypriot government has become part of the war and the resistance (Hezbollah) will deal with it as part of the war,” Nasrallah said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was mobilizing troops to counter the growing Hezbollah threat along the northern border, IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi assured Wednesday.
“We are in a state of war for over eight months, and you have defended for over eight months, providing a complex defense,” the IDF Chief of Staff said. “This defense gives a great deal of security to civilians and the IDF, but we are not satisfied with that, we have many more soldiers in the IDF who are engaged in an offensive against Hezbollah.”
If Hezbollah launched an offensive, it would face advanced military capabilities previously unknown to the terrorist group. “We of course have infinitely greater capabilities, of which I think the enemy is only familiar with few of them and will confront them at the right time,” Halevi assured.
An Israeli airstrike eliminated Hamas’s elite terrorist Nukhba commander, who led jihadist fighters into Israel on October 7, the IDF revealed Wednesday. Hamas’s Nukhba forces spearheaded the terrorist invasion of October 7, murdering 1200 Israelis and taking 251 as hostages to Gaza.
Backed by intelligence from the IDF and the Shin Bet security agency, an Israeli “aircraft conducted a precise and targeted strike to eliminate the Hamas terrorist Ahmed Hassan Salame Alsauarka in the area of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza,” the Israeli military announced Thursday.
The slain terrorist “Ahmed Hassan Salameh a-Swarkeh … invaded Israeli towns on October 7, and was later behind sniper attacks against Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun [northern Gaza],” The Times of Israel reported.
“IDF troops are continuing to operate in the area of the central Gaza Strip,” the Israeli military disclosed in a press release Thursday. The Israeli “troops are continuing precise, intelligence-based, operational activity in the Rafah area,” the IDF statement added. “Over the past day, the troops eliminated several terrorists in close-quarters encounters. Additionally, the troops conducted targeted raids in specific areas, locating rocket launchers.”
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