Israel‘s prime minister vowed to strike back at aggressors as tensions in the Middle East intensified yesterday.
Benjamin Netanyahu warned, ‘Whoever harms us, we will harm them’ after Israel exchanged fire with militant group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of pre-dawn airstrikes, targeting Hezbollah rocket launchers, following information that the Iranian-backed terror organisation planned to take out key Israeli intelligence bases.
Hezbollah then launched more than 300 rockets, missiles and drones targeting military facilities in northern Israel – aggression it chillingly described as ‘phase one’ of a multi-stage attack.
It said it was acting in response to the killing of Fouad Shukur, its acting chief of staff, in an airstrike in Beirut last month.
An explosion takes place as Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Zibqin, Lebanon,…