Hezbollah chief warns Israel against waging war on Lebanon

BEIRUT – AFP

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has warned Israel against all-out conflict, after Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi, in a visit to the Lebanese border, said troops were “in very high readiness”.

In a televised speech, Nasrallah said that “for now, we are fighting on the frontline following meticulous calculations” but warned that, “if the enemy thinks of waging a war on Lebanon, we will fight without restraint, without rules, without limits and without restrictions”.

Nasrallah vowed the deaths of senior Hamas commanders in Beirut “will not go unpunished” and warned Israel any war in Lebanon would “come at a very high cost”.

The Lebanese group said Thursday another four of its fighters were killed overnight, raising its death toll to 129 since the outbreak of border hostilities.

Mossad chief David Barnea warned on Wednesday that the Israeli spy agency “is committed to settling the score with the murderers” who carried out the Hamas attack.

Anyone who “participated directly or indirectly in the slaughter of October 7, his blood shall be upon his own head,” Barnea said.