The Iran-backed Hezbollah signaled it will escalate attacks on Israel in response to the deaths of 10 Lebanese civilians killed in Israeli attacks this week, saying Israel would pay a price “in blood.”
Hezbollah and Israel have been trading fire across the Lebanese-Israeli border since the Gaza war erupted in October, in their deadliest confrontation in nearly 20 years.
“The response to the massacre should be continuing resistance work at the front and escalating resistance work at the front,” Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah says in a televised speech.
“Our women and our children who were killed in these days, the enemy will pay the price of spilling their blood in blood,” he said.
Earlier today, Hezbollah announced that two of its members were killed, while the allied Amal group says three members died in the strike.
The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday it had eliminated a senior Hezbollah commander in the terror group’s elite Radwan Force responsible for a March 2023 bombing in northern Israel, along with his deputy, in a strike in southern Lebanon the previous night.
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