Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is determined to have his country fight the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, believing the Iranian-backed militia will “get the message.”
“In recent days, we have hit Hezbollah with a series of attacks that it could not have imagined,” Netanyahu said in a video statement, as reported by the Times of Israel. “If Hezbollah has not gotten the message, I promise you it will get the message.”
Israel wants to drive Hezbollah out of the border area again to enable the return of tens of thousands of residents who fled northern Israel.
Since the start of the Gaza war against Hezbollah’s ally Hamas almost a year ago, not a day has gone by when Hezbollah has not attacked Israeli towns in the north, Netanyahu said. Some 60,000 Israelis have become “refugees in their own country.”
“No country can tolerate rocket fire on its citizens, rocket fire on its cities,” Netanyahu said. “The State of Israel cannot tolerate it either.”
