BEIRUT (Dispatches) – A
Hezbollah lawmaker said on Tuesday that the Lebanese resistance movement would respond “double” to any attacks by the Zionist regime on civilians after a strike that killed three children and their grandmother in south Lebanon.
The remarks reflect the volatile situation on the Israeli-Lebanese border, where deadly clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters are fuelling fears of a wider regional war while the regime invades the Gaza Strip.
“The resistance will respond double to any aggression that targets civilians,” Ali Fayyad said at the funeral of the four Lebanese killed in the south on Sunday.
“It hasn’t yet shown all its weight,” he said, referring to the powerful resistance movement. He did not elaborate.
Lebanese authorities said an airstrike by the occupying regime hit the car the family was travelling in on Sunday. The regime’s military said its troops engaged a vehicle in Lebanon which was “identified as a suspected transport for terrorists” and it was looking into reports there were civilians inside.
At the funeral, the family cried over four coffins draped in the flags of Lebanon and of a local scouts organization. A banner of the three girls, who were aged between 10 and 14, said they were martyrs and featured the emblem of Hezbollah.
Violence at the Lebanese border is the deadliest there since 2006 as Israel bombards Hezbollah’s Palestinian ally Hamas in Gaza - a response to an Oct. 7 Hamas attack on the Israeli-occupied towns.
The occupying regime’s bombardment of Gaza has killed 10,000 Palestinians, health officials in the enclave say.