Reports: Hezbollah to respond to Israel's killing of its members
Hezbollah will “certainly respond” to the Israeli shelling that killed three of its members in south Lebanon on Monday, Hezbollah sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Tuesday.
Sources close to the group meanwhile told the daily that Hezbollah is maintaining the highest level of preparedness for any development, while denying the reports about Hezbollah “messages” sent to Israel through Arab sides.
“Hezbollah is not concerned with any baseless fabrications and is not concerned with messaging anyone about what the resistance might do, seeing as the resistance’s steps speak for themselves,” the sources added.
The reports had said that Hezbollah had threatened to intervene in the war should Israel stage a land invasion in Gaza.
Diplomatic sources meanwhile told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper that “there is a U.S. and European cover for Israel on the border with Lebanon, similar to the cover it has in the Gaza war.”
“Lebanon will be left to its fate should Hezbollah carry out any military act on the southern border,” the sources added.
In a statement issued Monday, Hezbollah described its shelling of two military barracks in northern Israel as an "initial" retaliation to the killing of its three members.
The Israeli attack, accompanied by intensive bombardment of Lebanese border areas, followed a deadly infiltration attack by Palestinian militants that was carried out from south Lebanon against the Israeli army.
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