Lebanon: Israel escalatory actions could trigger all-out war; Hezbollah ‘entitled’ to retaliation

Lebanon's Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has warned that Israel’s escalatory actions could trigger an all-out war in the West Asia region.

Bou Habib urged the United Nations to “intensify its efforts to stop the Israeli aggression against Lebanon and to spare the region from sliding into a whirlpool of retaliatory responses” that could lead to the outbreak of an all-out regional war.

He made the remarks at a meeting with Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the UN special coordinator for Lebanon, on Monday.

Bou Habib also reiterated Lebanon’s commitment to the full and comprehensive implementation of UNSC Resolution 1701, stressing that it’s “the only solution to bring calm to southern Lebanon.”

The Israeli regime has been staging numerous sporadic attacks against southern Lebanon since October 7, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

In its most daring attack against the Arab country since the beginning of the Gaza onslaught, the regime assassinated Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah military commander and an advisor to the movement’s Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli strike against a building in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday.

The movement has vowed to keep up its retaliatory operations as long as the Tel Aviv regime continues its onslaught on Gaza that has so far killed 39,623 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 91,469 others.

‘Hezbollah has right to respond to Israeli aggression’

Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was cited by al-Joumhouria newspaper as saying on Tuesday that Hezbollah has the right to respond to the Israeli aggression, noting that the regime has been deliberately violating the rules of engagement by targeting civilians and areas deep inside the Lebanese territories.

Hezbollah hits Israeli military positions in occupied territories with combat drones

Hezbollah fighters strike Israeli military positions in the occupied territories with combat drones.

Berri added that the current “sensitive” situation requires “the highest level of unity” among Lebanese people in order to protect the country against the Israeli threats.

Earlier, Berri had noted that "in response to any Israeli aggression against Lebanon, we will be … on the frontlines, like Amal and Hezbollah [movements] to confront it.”

Hezbollah officials have repeatedly said they do not want a war with Israel, while stressing that they are prepared in case it occurs.

Two Israeli wars waged against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006 were met with strong resistance from Hezbollah, resulting in the retreat of the regime in both conflicts.

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