Netanyahu claims Israel ‘acted proactively’ to remove Hezbollah threat
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed he instructed the Israeli military to “act proactively” and attack Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah’s preparations for a retaliatory attack on Israel.
The military has been working to “thwart the threats” and has “destroyed thousands of rockets aimed at the north of the country,”. Netanyahu claimed.
He added, “It’s also thwarting many other threats and is operating with great power – both in defence and on the attack.
“We are determined to do everything possible to defend our country, to return the residents of the north safely to their homes and to continue to uphold a simple rule: Whoever harms us – we harm him.”
Israel launched a series of intense airstrikes on southern Lebanon early on Sunday in what it said was a “preemptive” attack. Hezbollah said it has completed the “first phase” of the retaliatory attack on Israel with “a large number of missiles” in response to Israel’s killing of its commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut in July.
