BEIRUT (Dispatches) – Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah warned of harsher military response against the Zionist regime on Wednesday if Tel Aviv mounted its airstrikes in Lebanon.
‘’Until now, confrontations have been limited,” Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem said in a speech at an event in Beirut’s southern neighborhood.
“However, we will escalate if the enemy moves to a higher level” in its attacks, he added.
The Hezbollah leader criticized the West’s double standards in dealing with the Zionist regime’s war on the Gaza Strip.
“Western diplomacy aims to disable our strength in disturbing Israel’s security, but it does not work to stop the war on Gaza,” he added.
Tension has flared along the Lebanese border amid intermittent exchanges of fire between Zionist troops and Hezbollah, in the deadliest clashes since the two sides fought a full-scale war in 2006.
The tension comes amid an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 29,313 people since Oct. 7 last year.
On Wednesday, Hezbollah fighters, meanwhile, targeted groups of Israeli soldiers in the al-Marj post and in the northern Israeli settlements of Even Menachem, Shumira and Avivim.
The group also struck the Rweissat al-Alam post in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
The Lebanese resistance movement hit Israeli outposts in Zebdine area and Zar’it moshav in the Upper Galilee region near the Lebanese border.
An Israeli strike knocked down part of a building in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh on February 14, killing seven members of the same family, including a child. A boy initially reported missing was found alive under the rubble.
In a separate Israeli attack, a woman and her two children were killed in the village of as-Sawana in southern Lebanon.
The regime’s devastating hostilities began on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity.