Hezbollah leader issues chilling warning on Iran as terrorists fire rockets at Israel
Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah has issued a chilling warning to Israel as his terrorist fighters rained rocket fire down on the Jewish state.
Israel has been on red alert after an attack – believed to have been carried out by Tel Aviv – flattened part of the Iranian consulate in Syria and killed two top Iranian Revolutionary Guard generals.
Speaking today Nasrallah warned the West that the killing of IRGC leader Mohammad Reza Zahedi would mark a turning point in the war adding: “There will be a before and after this moment.”
He added that Israel’s very existence was “in danger”.
His comments came as Hezbollah claimed to have sent rockets streaking toward IDF positions across the Lebanese border.
The group said on an affiliated Telegram channel: “In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance targeted at the afternoon of Friday a deployment of Israeli enemy soldiers… [with] artillery shells, hitting it directly.”
Nasrallah’s broadside against the Israeli leadership came after Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Friday that “our brave men will punish the Zionist regime,” escalating threats against Israel for the airstrike, that killed seven of the group’s members.
The strike, widely attributed to Israel, destroyed the consular section at the Iranian embassy in Syria. The attack on an Iranian diplomatic compound was a significant escalation in what has been a long-running shadow war between the two archenemies, and Israel has been bracing for an Iranian response.
The tensions flared against the backdrop of the six-month-old Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and raised renewed fears of a widening regional conflict. The terrorist group Hamas, which has ruled Gaza for 17 years, is one of Iran’s proxies, along with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia and Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
Both Hezbollah and the Houthis have carried out attacks along the fringes of the Gaza war, with Hezbollah engaging in daily cross-border exchanges with Israel and the Houthis frequently targeting Red Sea shipping.
It was not clear if Iran would respond directly or continue to activate its proxies, as it has done throughout the Gaza war.
In all, 12 people were killed in Monday’s strike on the Iranian diplomatic compound – seven Guard members, four Syrians, and a Hezbollah member.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden issued a stark warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that future US support for Israel’s Gaza war depends on the swift implementation of new steps to protect civilians and aid workers.
Biden and Netanyahu’s roughly 30-minute call just days after Israeli airstrikes killed seven food aid workers in Gaza added a new layer of complication to the leaders’ increasingly strained relationship.
Biden’s message marks a sharp change in his administration’s steadfast support for Israel’s war efforts, with the US leader for the first time threatening to rethink his backing if Israel doesn’t change its tactics and allow much more humanitarian aid into Gaza.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 people hostage. Health officials in Hamas-run Gaza say Israel has killed more than 33,000 people in Gaza.
Source » msn.com
