Fuad Shukr’s killing was the most serious blow to Hezbollah in nearly two decades and threatened to push the fighting across Lebanon’s southern border into a full-blown conflict.
Lebanon’s powerful Iran-backed group Hezbollah vowed a “definite” response to Israel’s killing of its top military commander, saying the strike had crossed red lines and the decades-old rivalry between foes had entered a new phase.
Shukr’s killing was the most serious blow to Hezbollah in nearly two decades and threatened to push the tit-for-tat fighting across Lebanon’s southern border in parallel with the Gaza war into a full-blown regional conflict.Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah Nasrallah said the group carried out an investigation that determined it was not responsible for the Golan strike.He said Israel’s attacks on Beirut and Tehran, coupled with a US strike in a province south of Baghdad, in the space of just a few hours showed the conflict had entered new phase of regional war on multiple fronts.Nasrallah said some countries, which he did not name, had asked his group to retaliate in an “acceptable” way, or not at all.
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