Israeli PM Netanyahu Warns Lebanon Of ‘Destruction Like Gaza’

Netanyahu said Israeli forces “took out thousands of terrorists, including (Hezbollah leader Hassan) Nasrallah himself and Nasrallah’s replacement and the replacement of his replacement.”

The Israeli military has been pummelling the southern suburbs of Beirut with continual air raids, targeting Hezbollah’s leaders, military installations and weapons caches. Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Hezbollah had been “battered and broken” by the relentless strikes on its strongholds and the killing of its leader.

On Tuesday, Hezbollah warned that it would intensify attacks on Israel, including the northern port city of Haifa, if it continues to strike Lebanon. “The Israeli enemy’s intensifying strikes” mean that “Haifa and other locations will be targeted by our rockets just as much as Kiryat Shmona, Metula, and other” locations, the group said. The Israeli army earlier reported that 85 projectiles were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel, including Haifa.