Hezbollah Chief: ‘No Red Lines’ in Attacks Against Israel

TEL AVIV — Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel that Sunday’s “successful” attack at an army base was the start of a “new phase” in which the Iran-backed terror movement no longer has red lines. 

“Israel, the tyrant and arrogant, claiming to possess the region’s strongest army, was seen by the world scared and worried for 8 days,” he said in a speech from his Beirut bunker Monday.

By attacking from across the border and into Israel proper and not in the contested Shebaa Farms, the site of previous Hezbollah attacks, Hezbollah had broken Israel’s “biggest red line,” the terror chief said.

“We no longer have red lines. This is the start of a new phase. Remember this date,” he said, adding, “if you attack, then all your borders, your forces and your settlements” will be at risk.

He added Hezbollah would now focus on targeting Israeli drones entering Lebanon’s skies.

On Sunday, Hezbollah fired several anti-tank guided missiles at an army base and struck a military APC in northern Israel in an apparent reprisal for an Israeli attack in Syria that saw two of the terror group’s operatives killed. No one was harmed in the attack, despite the release of a video that seemed to show the evacuation of bleeding IDF soldiers to a hospital. The video later turned out to be a fake aimed at compelling Hezbollah to stop attacking.

Israel retaliated by firing at around a hundred Hezbollah targets inside Lebanon.

According to an Israeli TV report, Israel was ready to launch a massive military campaign aimed at destroying Hezbollah’s precision missile system in Lebanon, but decided against it because no soldiers were hurt in Sunday’s attack.