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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Following drone incursion, Gantz renews threat against Hezbollah

Defense Minister Benny Gantz threatened Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group on Wednesday, saying attempts to create an equation of response with Israel would result in a bill with “high interest.”

“I suggest to [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah not to make accounts and equations with Israel. Because the bill may be sent to Nasrallah, the Lebanese state and its citizens… and it will be served with interest, high interest,” Gantz said during a memorial for a paratrooper commander killed in Lebanon in 1999.

His remarks — made from the Tel-Hai College near the Lebanon border — come after the Iran-backed terror group claimed responsibility for launching a small drone, apparently for reconnaissance, that entered Israel from Lebanon on Friday, and seemingly flummoxed Israeli attempts to intercept it.

Apparently in response, two Israeli fighter jets flew from the Mediterranean Sea over the Lebanese capital before departing several minutes later.

Lebanese social media users claimed the Israeli jets flew over Beirut’s Dahiya neighborhood, a Hezbollah stronghold, deliberately setting off sonic booms. READ MORE