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BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that his powerful militia is already engaged in unprecedented cross-border fighting with Israel along the Lebanon-Israel border and threatened a further escalation.
In the televised remarks - Nasrallah's first since the beginning of the Hamas-Israel war - he stopped short of announcing that his Lebanese militia would fully enter the war, a move that would have devastating consequences for both Lebanon and Israel.
The US, Israel's strongest backer, has warned Hezbollah and its patron Iran against entering the fray and has sent warships to the Mediterranean, a move that Nasrallah said "will not scare us". Hezbollah is prepared for all options, he declared, "and we can resort to them at any time." The fighting on the Lebanon-Israel border would "not be limited" to the scale seen until now, he added.
"Whoever wants to prevent a
regional war
, and I am talking to the Americans, must quickly halt the aggression on Gaza," Nasrallah said.
Israel considers Hezbollah its most serious immediate threat, estimating that Hezbollah has 150,000 rockets aimed at Israel, as well as drones and surface-to-air and -sea missiles.
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