PM Modi talks to UAE president, urges ‘need for early resolution’ in Israel-Hamas war Concerns about a potential spillover in the Middle East have continued to grow as Iran-backed Hezbollah continues to trade fire with Israeli forces. While Nasrallah stopped short of announcing complete engagement in the Israel-Hamas war, he said that fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border would “not be limited" to the scale seen until now.
He insisted that Hezbollah was not intimidated by the deployment of US warships in the region and warned Israel against attacking Lebanon. “All options are open on our Lebanese front…We say to the enemy that might think of attacking Lebanon or carrying out a pre-emptive operation, that this would be the greatest foolishness of its existence," Nasrallah said.
According to an Al Jazeera report on his address, Nasrallah also called Israel frail – contending that the other country had been unable to record a single military achievement during an entire month. The current situation in Gaza, he opined, showed Israel’s ‘foolishness and inability because what it was doing is killing children and women’.
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