Israel has vowed Hezbollah will “pay the price” after blaming the Lebanese militant group for a rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 children.
The security cabinet authorized Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to decide on the nature and timing of the response against Hezbollah. Lebanon says it received reassurances from third countries that Israel’s response would be limited.
Meanwhile, two people were killed and three wounded, including a child, in a double drone strike in south Lebanon, the country’s state-owned news agency, NNA, reported on Monday.
A Lebanese security source told CNN it was an Israeli drone strike.
A drone had struck a car near Lebanon’s border with Israel, wounding two people, according to NNA. Two people on a motorcycle who drove to the vehicle to check on the wounded were killed by a second drone, NNA said.
This comes after Israel blamed the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah for a rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 children and teenagers on Saturday, which Hezbollah denies.
Israel’s emergency security cabinet has authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to decide on “the nature” and “timing” of the response against Hezbollah, according to a Sunday statement from the prime minister’s office.
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Lebanon’s caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has however said he received reassurances from third countries that Israel’s response to the strike will be limited, hinting that the US and France were two of those countries.
The attack was the deadliest to hit Israel or Israeli-controlled territory since the October 7 attack by Hamas. Israel vowed Hezbollah will “pay the price.”
The strike has raised fears once again that an all-out war could envelop the region. A key backer of Hezbollah, Iran has warned against “any new adventures” aimed at Lebanon, while Bou Habib said his country will not get involved in a war, but will stand behind Hezbollah.
Bou Habib also warned that other actors in the region may get involved, including in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
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