On northern border, Gallant says Hezbollah paying ‘heavy price’ for attacks on Israel

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to soldiers at the Biranit camp on the Lebanon border, October 21, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to soldiers at the Biranit camp on the Lebanon border, October 21, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group has been paying “a heavy price” for its missile, rocket, and shooting attacks against Israeli military sites, troops, and Israeli towns in northern Israel in recent days.

“Hezbollah has decided to participate in the fighting, we are exacting a heavy price from it,” Gallant tells troops at the 91st territorial division base, at the Biranit camp on the Lebanon border.

More than 13 Hezbollah members have been killed in Israeli retaliatory strikes in southern Lebanon in the past two weeks.

“I assume that the challenges will become greater [than they are now], and you have to take this into account, to be ready, like a spring, for any situation,” he adds to the forces.

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