Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday warned “no place” in Israel can be spared in case of full-blown struggle in opposition to the Lebanese group, and threatened Cyprus if it opened its airports to Israel.
“The enemy is aware of nicely that we now have ready ourselves for the worst… and that no place… shall be spared our rockets,” Nasrallah mentioned in a televised tackle.
Israel should count on “us on land, by sea and by air”, he mentioned.
“The enemy actually fears that the resistance will penetrate Galilee” in northern Israel, he mentioned, including that this was potential “within the context of a struggle that might be imposed on Lebanon“.
Israel and Hezbollah, a robust Lebanese motion allied with Hamas, have traded near-daily cross-border fireplace because the Palestinian militant group’s October 7 assault on Israel which triggered struggle within the Gaza Strip.
The exchanges between the foes, which final went to struggle in 2006, have escalated in current weeks, and the Israeli army mentioned Tuesday that “operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon have been authorized and validated”.
Earlier, Overseas Minister Israel Katz had warned of Hezbollah’s destruction in a “complete struggle”.
Nasrallah mentioned his Iran-backed group had been knowledgeable that Israel may use airports and bases in Cyprus if Hezbollah struck Israeli airports.
Cyprus, a European Union member, has good relations with Israel and Lebanon, and lies near the coast of each nations.
“Opening Cypriot airports and bases to the Israeli enemy to focus on Lebanon would imply that the Cypriot authorities is a part of the struggle, and the resistance will cope with it as a part of the struggle,” Nasrallah threatened.
Britain has additionally retained sovereign management over two base areas in its former colony Cyprus below the phrases of the treaties that granted the island independence in 1960.
– ‘New weapons’ –
Nasrallah’s statements got here a day after US envoy Amos Hochstein — who in 2022 brokered a maritime border deal between Israel and Lebanon — referred to as for “pressing” de-escalation throughout a go to to Lebanon.
He additionally met with senior officers in Israel on his regional tour.
“Every part the enemy says and that the mediators convey, together with with threats of struggle on Lebanon… this does not scare us,” Nasrallah mentioned.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah launched a greater than nine-minute video exhibiting aerial footage purportedly taken by the motion over northern Israel, together with what it mentioned have been delicate army, defence and power amenities and infrastructure within the metropolis and port of Haifa.
Nasrallah mentioned the footage was taken by a drone that “flew for lengthy hours” over the Haifa port.
He additionally warned that his group had solely used “part of” its weapons since October.
“We now have obtained new weapons,” Nasrallah mentioned, with out elaborating.
“We now have developed a few of our weapons… and we’re holding others for the times that can come,” he mentioned.
“Years in the past we talked about 100,000 fighters… in the present day, we now have vastly exceeded” that quantity, Nasrallah added.
“The resistance has extra (manpower) than it wants… even within the worst circumstances,” he mentioned.
Hezbollah on Wednesday claimed a number of assaults on Israeli troops and positions in northern Israel, and introduced the loss of life of 4 of its fighters.
The cross-border violence has killed a minimum of 478 folks in Lebanon, most of them fighters but in addition together with 93 civilians, in accordance with an AFP tally.
Israeli authorities say a minimum of 15 troopers and 11 civilians have been killed within the nation’s north.
“The enemy is aware of nicely that we now have ready ourselves for the worst… and that no place… shall be spared our rockets,” Nasrallah mentioned in a televised tackle.
Israel should count on “us on land, by sea and by air”, he mentioned.
“The enemy actually fears that the resistance will penetrate Galilee” in northern Israel, he mentioned, including that this was potential “within the context of a struggle that might be imposed on Lebanon“.
Israel and Hezbollah, a robust Lebanese motion allied with Hamas, have traded near-daily cross-border fireplace because the Palestinian militant group’s October 7 assault on Israel which triggered struggle within the Gaza Strip.
The exchanges between the foes, which final went to struggle in 2006, have escalated in current weeks, and the Israeli army mentioned Tuesday that “operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon have been authorized and validated”.
Earlier, Overseas Minister Israel Katz had warned of Hezbollah’s destruction in a “complete struggle”.
Nasrallah mentioned his Iran-backed group had been knowledgeable that Israel may use airports and bases in Cyprus if Hezbollah struck Israeli airports.
Cyprus, a European Union member, has good relations with Israel and Lebanon, and lies near the coast of each nations.
“Opening Cypriot airports and bases to the Israeli enemy to focus on Lebanon would imply that the Cypriot authorities is a part of the struggle, and the resistance will cope with it as a part of the struggle,” Nasrallah threatened.
Britain has additionally retained sovereign management over two base areas in its former colony Cyprus below the phrases of the treaties that granted the island independence in 1960.
– ‘New weapons’ –
Nasrallah’s statements got here a day after US envoy Amos Hochstein — who in 2022 brokered a maritime border deal between Israel and Lebanon — referred to as for “pressing” de-escalation throughout a go to to Lebanon.
He additionally met with senior officers in Israel on his regional tour.
“Every part the enemy says and that the mediators convey, together with with threats of struggle on Lebanon… this does not scare us,” Nasrallah mentioned.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah launched a greater than nine-minute video exhibiting aerial footage purportedly taken by the motion over northern Israel, together with what it mentioned have been delicate army, defence and power amenities and infrastructure within the metropolis and port of Haifa.
Nasrallah mentioned the footage was taken by a drone that “flew for lengthy hours” over the Haifa port.
He additionally warned that his group had solely used “part of” its weapons since October.
“We now have obtained new weapons,” Nasrallah mentioned, with out elaborating.
“We now have developed a few of our weapons… and we’re holding others for the times that can come,” he mentioned.
“Years in the past we talked about 100,000 fighters… in the present day, we now have vastly exceeded” that quantity, Nasrallah added.
“The resistance has extra (manpower) than it wants… even within the worst circumstances,” he mentioned.
Hezbollah on Wednesday claimed a number of assaults on Israeli troops and positions in northern Israel, and introduced the loss of life of 4 of its fighters.
The cross-border violence has killed a minimum of 478 folks in Lebanon, most of them fighters but in addition together with 93 civilians, in accordance with an AFP tally.
Israeli authorities say a minimum of 15 troopers and 11 civilians have been killed within the nation’s north.
