Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the battle between his militant group and Israel had “entered a new phase” with the killing of a senior commander in Beirut, adding that Israel had breached limits and should expect a “certain” response.
“To the Israeli enemy: laugh a little now, but you will cry a lot as you don’t know what red lines you have crossed,” Nasrallah said in some of his most combative comments since the October 7 attack on Israel sparked war in Gaza and raised fears of a wider regional conflagration.
He was speaking via video link before the funeral on Thursday of his adviser Fuad Shukr, who was killed in the air strike this week in the densely populated southern suburb of Beirut that is a Hizbollah stronghold.