IDF chief says Hezbollah is paying heavier price, Israel will be ‘fighting in Gaza all year’

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi says the military is exacting increasingly heavy prices from Hezbollah, as the terror group continues to carry out attacks on northern Israel.

“2024 will be challenging, we will be at war in Gaza, I don’t know if all year — we will be fighting in Gaza all year, that’s for sure,” says Halevi during a visit to the West Bank division.

“In the north, Hezbollah has decided to enter this war, we are exacting ever-increasing prices. It paid yesterday with seven deaths, it paid yesterday with two very, very important targets, and we are increasing the price it pays,” he says.

He says the IDF has the responsibility of returning Israel’s displaced northern residents to their homes, and this will come by either the military’s pressure on Hezbollah, “or we will end up with another war.”