Israel warns Hezbollah to stay out of its fight against Iran: Leader hasnt learned from his predecessors

Israel’s defense minister on Friday warned Hezbollah to stay out of its fight against Iran, saying that the terror group’s leader “hasn’t learned from his predecessors.”“I suggest that the Lebanese proxy be careful, and understand that Israel has lost patience with the terrorists who threaten it,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said after Hezbollah leadership condemned Israel’s airstrikes on Iran, according to the Times of Israel.“The Hezbollah leader hasn’t learned from his predecessors and is threatening to act against Israel,” he said about the Iranian proxy groups’ former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israeli airstrikes in September.Hezbollah’s leader, Naim Qassem, who succeeded Nasrallah in October, said Thursday that the terror group would “act as we see fit” reading the conflict between Israel and Iran.The group declared it was standing in full solidarity with Iran and that threats against Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would lead to “disastrous consequences.”“Threats to assassinate [Khamenei] are foolish and reckless, and will have disastrous consequences… Merely uttering them is an offense to hundreds of millions of believers and those connected to Islam, and it is utterly reprehensible.Today, we are more determined and united around him,” Hezbollah declared.Israel began to conduct airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites and its missile capabilities on June 13 after fears that their longtime enemy, which has repeatedly called for the destruction of the Jewish state, was close to creating a nuclear weapon.Iran retaliated with a barrage of missiles and drone strikes on Israel — fully igniting the deadly conflict between the two Middle Eastern nations.On Thursday, Iran launched a missile barrage that damaged the Soroka Medical Center in the southern city of Beersheba and hit a high-rise and several other residential buildings near Tel Aviv.At least 240 people were wounded by the Iran...

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