Later on Wednesday, Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah threatened an invasion during a televised address.
“An invasion of the Galilee remains on the table if the confrontation escalates,” Nasrallah proclaimed.
He warned that Israel, not Hezbollah, should be fearful and that nowhere in Israel would be safe in the case of a wider war. The terror group was not seeking such a war, but would fight it with “no rules” and “no ceilings,” he said.
He added that the terror group would continue to support Hamas in Gaza until a “complete and permanent ceasefire” is in place.
Hezbollah has been pounding northern Israeli communities since joining the war in support of Hamas just one day after the October 7 massacre. Tens of thousands of Israelis have been evacuated from border communities, and Hezbollah rockets and drones have resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries, in addition to widespread physical destruction and of late, major fires, on the Israeli side.
On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces’ Northern Command announced the approval of operational plans for a war against Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon.
Following a two-day lull in hostilities, Hezbollah resumed its attacks on Tuesday afternoon, launching three “suspicious aerial targets” toward towns in the Upper Galilee, the IDF said.
Also on Tuesday, Hezbollah published video captured by a surveillance UAV of the Haifa Port, one of Israel’s most important commercial shipping gateways.
