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Katz instructs IDF to respond to rocket fire: ‘The fate of Metula is the same as Beirut’
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Defense Minister Israel Katz says he instructed the IDF to respond to the rocket attack from Lebanon this morning.
“We will not allow a reality of fire from Lebanon on the Galilee communities. We have promised security to the Galilee communities, and that is exactly what will happen,” he says.
Katz says that “the fate of Metula is the same as Beirut,” in an apparent threat to strike the Lebanese capital after five rockets were launched at the Israeli border community.
“The Lebanese government bears responsibility for any fire from its territory. I have instructed the IDF to respond accordingly,” he adds.
