Top minister: Lebanon will pay steep price if Nasrallah initiates conflict

16 February 2017, 6:15 pm

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Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is the first, and may turn out to be the only, high-level minister to respond to threats earlier today by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah to attack Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona in a future conflict.

In an interview with Channel 2, Erdan is asked about Nasrallah’s threat. He shrugs, smiles, and says there was no need to respond.

Nasrallah was speaking out of “distress,” he explains. “He knows very well that his group and Lebanon as a whole will pay a very steep price if he initiates a conflict in the north…. It’s no accident that we’ve seen relative quiet in the north for the past ten years.”