Thursday, July 14, 2022

Nasrallah threatens war over Israel-Lebanon maritime border dispute

The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah terror organization, Hassan Nasrallah, issued a stark warning to Israel on Wednesday, saying that drones sent recently to the Karish gas field were “only the beginning.”

On July 2, the Israeli military said it had successfully intercepted three Hezbollah drones that were heading for the Karish gas field off Israel’s Mediterranean coast.

In a televised speech marking 16 years since the Second Lebanon War, Nasrallah said the unarmed drones were launched “in order to make the people working in the area know that they are not safe.”

The Hezbollah leader claimed the attack was the first to include three unmanned aerial vehicles being launched toward Israel simultaneously. “So far, UAVs have been launched from the [Gaza] Strip and Syria, but one at a time. Never three at once,” he said.

“Write down this equation — we will reach Karish and everything beyond Karish and everything beyond that… If you want to prevent Lebanon from exercising its right to save itself by extracting oil and gas, no one will be able to extract oil and gas,” he added. READ MORE