Beirut Will Face Same Fate as Gaza if Hezbollah Enters the War
(Baonghean.vn) - Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant commented that the actions of Hezbollah fighters in the border area with Israel are currently beyond minor provocations.
According to Russia's TASS news agency, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant recently said that Lebanon's capital Beirut could fall into chaos similar to Gaza if Hezbollah drags Lebanon into war with Israel.
"Here I say to the Lebanese people: I can already see the people of Gaza moving along the coastline with white flags and heading south. Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into a place where it can start a war and they are making a mistake. If they make this mistake, all Lebanese citizens will pay the price first. What we are doing in Gaza, we can also do in Beirut," the Israeli defense minister said.
He asserted that the actions of Hezbollah fighters on the border with Israel were now beyond minor provocations. According to Gallant, Israeli forces were delivering a “qualitative response” that resulted in losses in Hezbollah’s ranks.
“You cannot provoke us, that would be a fatal mistake. We are on high alert, ready to repel any attack and ready for any development of events,” he affirmed.
The situation in the Middle East has escalated sharply following an attack by Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip on Israel on October 7, which resulted in the killing of residents of Israeli settlements near the border and the taking of more than 200 hostages, including children, women and the elderly. Hamas sees the attack as a response to Israel's actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Israel has declared a complete siege of the Gaza Strip and has begun carrying out attacks on that area as well as parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.
