Qaouq says Hezbollah to meet 'escalation with escalation'
Senior Hezbollah official Sheikh Nabil Qaouq said Thursday at an event in south Lebanon that his group is “prepared for the possibility of expanding the war” with Israel, a day after the fiercest escalation since the beginning of clashes.
Hezbollah will meet “escalation with escalation, displacement with displacement, and destruction with destruction,” Qaouq warned.
At least 10 civilians were killed and several others were wounded in Israeli airstrikes Wednesday across south Lebanon. The airstrikes followed the death of an Israeli soldier and the wounding of seven others in a rocket attack on the Israeli army’s northern headquarters in Safad, some 12 kilometers away from the Lebanese border.
Hezbollah has not claimed responsibility for the attack but many of its officials have vowed a response to the killing of civilians.
The cross-border violence has killed at least 254 people on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 38 civilians.
15 February 2024, 15:26
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Great! Separate Hizbollastan from the rest of Lebanon and fight Israel for the next hundred years. You are nothing but Iran's Foreign Legion spreading Suleimani's Kiss of Death of all Shia Arab communities so Iran Basij can have their nuclear nirvana. You and your culture of death get the hell out of Lebanon that you have transformed from the shining city on the hill to a miserable isolated place, a beggar nation with no dignity, respect or freedom. We just commemorated your assassinations of Hariri, Tueni and Shateh; not forgetting the dozens of your victims, from the martyrs to living martyrs to Port and counting. Soon Lebanese Shia will wake up and hang you for your crimes, indoctrination, foreign culture of hate and war, and misery you spread all around.
15 February 2024, 17:44
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Those who live by the sword die by the sword... We want a culture of life not death! that's if there is any life or culture left... Hizb not much different than the Houthis or Taliban culture of arms and destruction while baby dying from hunger and malnutrition and women subject of modern slavery.
