Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah will give a speech on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. discussing “the latest political developments,” Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV reports.
Nasrallah’s speech will come in the aftermath of rising tensions on Israel’s northern border. Last Monday, the IDF said it thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to send a team of fighters into the Israeli-controlled territory of Mount Dov, also known as Shebaa Farms, to carry out an attack. According to the military, the Hezbollah cell made it a few meters across the border before the IDF thwarted the operation.
The IDF avoided killing the men, shooting in their direction to force them to flee.
Hezbollah denies the alleged operation took place, calling the IDF’s story “absolutely false attempts to generate illusory and false victories.”
A speech by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is transmitted on a large screen in the Lebanese capital Beirut’s southern suburbs on August 31, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
Another incident occurred last night, when four people crossed into Israeli territory from Syria and planted improvised explosive devices inside an unmanned Israel Defense Forces outpost along the Syrian border, the IDF said, although Israel has not yet blamed Hezbollah for the operation.
Soldiers and aircraft opened fire at the four suspects, some of whom were armed, killing them all, the IDF said.
— with Aaron Boxerman
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