29 Mar 2024
Wednesday 5 December 2018 - 13:13
Story Code : 329433

No Israeli aggression against Lebanon will go unanswered, Hezbollah warns

Press TV - A Hezbollah official has warned Israel against invading Lebanon, saying the resistance movement is strong enough to block any military aggression and retaliate against it.

The days when Israel could simply attack Lebanon are over, even though the initiative to attack is in Israels hands, Hassan Hoballah, a member of Hezbollahs political bureau, said on Tuesday.

The remarks came hours after the Israeli army launched an operation along Lebanons border under the pretext of cutting off what it claims are Hezbollah tunnels near the occupied territories.

Chief of Staff of Israeli military, Lieutenant General Gadi Eizenkot, claimed that the so-called Operation Northern Shield had been launched before the tunnels were operational and became an immediate and direct threat to northern communities and army bases.

PressTV-Israel launches operation against Hezbollah tunnels
The Israeli military has launched an operation along Lebanons border under the pretext of cutting off what it claims are tunnels dug by the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement.
Elsewhere in his comments, Hoballah stressed that Hezbollah fighters are capable of blocking any Israeli assault and launching counter-attacks on the enemy.

The resistance forces, he added, are on a constant state of alert and surveillance, and are assessing the situation.

The official also noted that Hezbollahs course of action will depend on developments in the field.

Hezbollah was formed following the Israeli regimes invasion of Lebanon and the ensuing occupation of its southern parts in the 1980s, and currently constitutes Lebanons de facto military power.

Since then, the movement has helped the national army retake the occupied regions from Tel Aviv and thwart two Israeli acts of aggression in 2000 and 2006. It has also been playing a significant role in the Syrian armys fight against Takfiri terrorist groups.

Since the end of the 2006 war, Israeli forces have regularly violated Lebanons sovereignty, with the regimes officials even threatening another offensive against the Arab country.

PressTV-Hezbollah to Israel: You will regret invading Lebanon
The Hezbollah resistance movement issues a warning video to Israel, saying that the regime will "regret" invading Lebanon.
Separately on Tuesday, President Michel Aoun called on Lebanons military and security agencies to closely monitor the situation in the countrys south.

Lebanons official National News Agency (NNA) reported that Aoun had held several phone calls with government officials and the army commander regarding the new Israeli operation.

During President Aouns phone calls, the situation was evaluated in light of the available information about the objectives of the Israeli operation and security agencies were asked to closely monitor the situation, the report said.

Additionally, the Lebanese army command said that it is watching the situation closely, reiterating its readiness to confront any emergency situation.

The situation is under close follow-up, read an army communiqu.

It further pointed out that the Lebanese army units are carrying out their usual missions near the occupied lands in cooperation with the United Nations peacekeeping force, known as UNIFIL, to prevent any escalation or destabilization in the region.

A PR stunt meant to save Netanyahu

Analysts have, however, raised doubt about the declared objective of the Israeli operation, describing it as an attempt by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to divert attention from the corruption scandals he is grappling with.

Prominent regional analyst Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, wrote Tuesday that the Israeli premier is struggling to save his own political life and avoid ending behind bars for graft by announcing such an operation.

He also said the operation was launched shortly after Netanyahus meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the Belgian capital, stressing that the embattled prime minister had been in Brussels to ask Pompeo for help.

Miko Peled, a former member of the Israeli army who has now become a pro-Palestinian activist, also believes that the Israeli operation is actually meant to distract public opinion from Netanyahus corruption probes.

Yesterday, if you look at the Israeli papers, there was some mention of the corruption charges. Today, its all southern Lebanon, its all Hezbollah, its all pictures of Netanyahu with his senior security staff, with the generals and so-forth. So this is a great PR and political gift that he got when (ex-minister for military affairs) Lieberman resigned, and now hes making use of it, Peled told Russias Sputnik news agency.
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