BEIRUT: Lebanese Hezbollah’s head Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Thursday (Aug 1) to respond to Israel’s killing of the group’s top military commander, saying its decades-old foe had “crossed red lines”.
An Israeli strike on Hezbollah’s stronghold in the southern suburb of Beirut on Tuesday killed top commander Fuad Shukr, along with an Iranian military advisor and five civilians.
It was the most serious blow to the Iran-backed group in nearly two decades and threatened to push the tit-for-tat exchanges across Lebanon’s southern border in parallel with the Gaza War into a full-blown regional conflict.
Speaking in a televised address to mark the funeral of the slain commander, Nasrallah said the conflict had entered “a new phase unlike the previous one” and that Israel had crossed red lines with its attack on the group’s stronghold.
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