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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant threatened Hezbollah, Wednesday, with a potential ground invasion of Lebanon that would “be rapid, surprising and decisive,” Israeli media reported.
“We can swiftly shift our main effort from the south to the north in an instant,” Gallant said during a visit to the northern border, according to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper as reported in Anadolu news.
In response Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, Wednesday pledged, his group’s fighters would wipe out the Israeli army’s tanks should they invade Lebanon reports the Lebanese website naharnet.
Such talk is happening when there are reports the Israeli army is running out of tanks and munitions and manpower as it continues its 10-month war on Gaza.
According to The New Arab a significant number of tanks have been damaged or are completely out of service amid its Gaza offensive, Israel military sources suggest but they did not reveal the exact number, Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
Nasrallah commented “if your tanks come to Lebanon and its south, you will not suffer from a shortage of tanks, because you will no longer have tanks.”
Making his comments at the end of Ashoura commemorations he warned if Israeli strikes continue on southern Lebanon, Hezbollah will target new settlements in Israel which have not been hit before.
Hezbollah has vowed to keep up its retaliatory attacks on Israel so long as it continues its deadly onslaught on Gaza which began soon after 7 October, 2023.
He said Israel has continued to pay a heavy toll because of its aggression on Gaza.
“The toll includes 9,254 individuals, among them officers and soldiers, with 3,000 amputees, 650 paralyzed, 185 completely blind, and several thousands suffering severe psychological trauma,” he said.
“Our front in Lebanon will remain active as long as the aggression against Gaza, its people, and its resistance continues in all its forms,” Nasrallah asserted and as reported by Press TV.
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