Hezbollah chief warns Israel against full-scale war on Lebanon, vows ‘punishment’

SpaceWar.com reports: “Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel on Wednesday that launching a full-scale war on Lebanon would be ‘very costly,’ and that the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Beirut would not go unpunished.

‘If the enemy thinks of launching a war on Lebanon, then our fighting will be without limits, ceiling, rules or restraints and he knows what I mean,’ Nasrallah said of Israel during a speech broadcast live via video at a rally to commemorate Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani on the fourth anniversary of his assassination in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq.

Referring to Hezbollah’s ‘missiles, capabilities and men,’ Nasrallah emphasized: ‘This is all to say that we are not afraid of war and not hesitant…Who thinks of [engaging] in a war with us, he will regret it if God wills.’

Nasrallah, whose fighters have been battling Israeli troops along the Lebanese border since the Gaza war broke out in October, warned that such a wider war will be ‘very, very, very costly.’

He explained that his fighters have been battling since Oct. 8 along the border with Israel in a ‘controlled’ way, taking into consideration Lebanon’s precarious conditions. However, he said that resulted in ‘paying a high price’ — a great number of Hezbollah men killed, about 120.

The Hezbollah chief said his group joined the battle a day after Hamas’ attack on Israel sparked the war to support the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza…”

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