Netanyahu warns Hezbollah after cross-border attack kills Israeli civilian | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli PM says Hezbollah will flip Beirut, southern Lebanon into Gaza and Khan Younis if Iran-backed group’s assaults on Israel proceed.

Israel has talked about {{that a}} guided missile assault from Lebanon killed an Israeli civilian throughout the north of the nation, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn that Beirut might be turned “into Gaza” if Hezbollah started an all-out battle.

The Israeli navy talked about on Thursday that fighters from the Lebanese Shia group carried out an antitank assault in northern Israel.

Hezbollah, which helps the Palestinian group Hamas, talked about one in all many 11 assaults it carried out on Thursday centered an Israeli barracks in Mattat, a village abutting the Lebanese border.

The Israeli army talked about its jets struck a Hezbollah command and administration centre in response to the Iranian-backed group’s assault.

“If Hezbollah chooses to start out out an all-out battle then it ought to, by its private hand, flip Beirut and southern Lebanon, not faraway from proper right here, into Gaza and Khan Younis,” Netanyahu talked about whereas visiting troops near the border.

It was not immediately clear if Netanyahu’s comment was linked to the most recent Hezbollah strike.

‘Farmer killed’

Israel’s public broadcaster Kan talked about the particular person killed was a farmer and the nation’s ambulance service talked about he was 60 years outdated.

Hezbollah talked about Thursday’s assault was in assist of Palestinians in Gaza.

The Israel-Palestinian conflict started on October 7 after a deadly assault by Hamas into southern Israel was adopted by Israel’s large air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip.

Since then, Israel and armed groups in southern Lebanon – some 200km (124 miles) from the Gaza Strip, notably Hezbollah, have engaged in frequent backwards and forwards exchanges all through the United Nations-patrolled Israel-Lebanon border.

Larger than 17,100 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, based mostly on the authorities throughout the enclave.

Israel says its demise toll stands at about 1,150.