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.
Source: Associated Press, Naharnet
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