This front now includes not only pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria that concentrate attacks on US bases, but also the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The details were announced the same day as at least 20 launches were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory on Tuesday. This set off alarms in the Golan and Hula Valley.
The threats against Israel in the US from Iran-backed groups
NBC reported that “Rockets launched from Lebanon reached deeper into Israeli territory Monday than any since the 2006 war, as the Hezbollah militant group’s second-in-command threatened to escalate cross-border attacks if Israel continues its deadly assault on the Gaza Strip.” The report noted that “the threats by Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, came as Iranian-backed militant groups across the Middle East launched an unprecedented array of attacks against American targets.”
The threats from Hezbollah were repeated at Iran’s pro-regime Fars News. In that article, Hezbollah claimed that the US and Israel were both involved in the “invasion” of Gaza. “From the very first days of the operation of the Palestinian resistance forces known as Al-Aqsa Flood, the Lebanese Hezbollah movement started its missile and artillery attacks on the Zionist regime and these attacks continued,” the report said. This is the clearest evidence that Hezbollah coordinated its attacks on Israel after the Hamas massacre of October 7. READ MORE