Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Lebanese Hezbollah that it would "make the biggest mistake of its life" if it decided to enter into a war against the Hebrew state, Netanyahu said during an inspection of Israeli forces near the border with Lebanon, "we will hit it with unimaginable force and its impact on the Lebanese state will be devastating."

---

 

edited by |Jus Mcmahon

 

Politic section -  CJ journalist

 

Tel Aviv - October,22,2023 

 

---

Netanyahu's remarks come at a time when Israel has accelerated evacuations of residents from communities located on its northern front with Lebanon, as cross-border clashes with the Lebanese group have escalated since the outbreak of the war in Gaza about three weeks ago.

After activating a plan last week to relocate residents from 28 villages in the border area and from the nearby town of Kiryat Shmona with the provision of temporary accommodation at state expense, the Israeli Defense Ministry said it would add 14 villages to the evacuation list.

The exchange of fire between the Hezbollah group and Israel has increased since the war in Gaza between Israel began on the seventh of October, and Israeli forces responded by launching intensive air strikes on Gaza.

This is the worst escalation of violence along the Israeli-Lebanese border since the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Attention was drawn to Tehran, which has a close relationship with the movement within the so-called"axis of resistance", which is led by Iran and includes factions and regional organizations opposed to the Hebrew state, the sworn enemy of the Islamic Republic.

Reacting to the escalation on the Lebanese-Israeli border, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian warned Washington and Tel Aviv that the situation in the Middle East could get out of control unless Israel "immediately stops crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza". According to his description.

"Today, the region is like a powder keg, I want to warn the United States and its Zionist regime that if they do not immediately put an end to the crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza, all possibilities are possible at any moment, and the situation in the region will become out of control,"the minister said during a press conference with his South African counterpart Naledi Pandor in Tehran.

In response, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that Washington sees a possible escalation of the ongoing war in the East

Because of the actions of Iran and its proxies in the region. He added that the United States does not seek escalation, and that it hopes for the release of more hostages held by the Hamas movement.

The ongoing conflict raises fears of a wider regional war, and Washington's decision to deploy defense systems and more troops to protect US soldiers in the region may be evidence of the upward trend in the war.

Having earlier sent two aircraft carriers to the Middle East, the Pentagon said it had put " an additional number of troops in Prepare for deployment " without specifying the number or date of deployment