Hezbollah threatens to fire on new Israeli targets
Al Jazeera
Warning increases concern low-level conflict across the Israel-Lebanon border could escalate into full-scale war.
Hezbollah has warned it will find new targets for its rocket attacks should Israeli attacks continue to “target” civilians in Lebanon.
Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese armed group’s leader, delivered the threat during a televised address on Wednesday. His words increase concern that the low-level conflict that Israel and the Iran-aligned group have pursued since the start of the war in Gaza could escalate towards a full-scale war.
Noting that eight non-combatants were killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon in recent days, Nasrallah said that more civilian bloodshed would see Hezbollah fire at new Israeli towns.
“Continuing to target civilians will push the Resistance to launch missiles at settlements that were not previously targeted,” he said in an address to mark the largely Shia holy day Ashura.
Five civilians, including three children, were killed in Israeli raids in Lebanon on Tuesday. At least three Lebanese civilians were killed the day before, according to state media and security sources.
