DIRECT. Middle East: Netanyahu threatens Lebanon with “destruction like in Gaza”, France denounces a “provocation”

Netanyahu threatens Lebanon with ‘destruction like Gaza’

Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday threatened the Lebanese that they would suffer “destruction” like in Gaza if they did not “liberate” their country from Hezbollah, at a time when Israel extended its ground offensive against the Islamic movement in southern Lebanon. Paris denounced a “provocation”.

Israeli operations continue in Lebanon

Benjamin Netanyahu also indicated that the IDF has “Nasrallah’s replacement and his replacement’s replacement,” without naming names. Unconfirmed information from the armed forces, according to which they have “dismantled” a tunnel dug by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon for a length of ten meters inside Israeli territory.

The Lebanese movement, for its part, threatened to intensify attacks, especially on Haifa, if the Jewish state continued to bomb Lebanon.

Visit postponed

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has decided to postpone the official visit scheduled for Wednesday to Washington, thus postponing a conversation with his American counterpart Lloyd Austin on the situation in the Middle East.