Hezbollah warns Israel against military escalation

On February 24, the Israeli army authorized a hit against Hezbollah positions in a bid Syrian rebels advances and cut off the Syrian army. Hezbollah leadership was keen to note that the attack had only damaged infrastructures, no men was hurt in the air attack.

Commenting publicly for the first time on the attack reported Monday night by the Lebanese army, Hezbollah said that the “Israeli enemy” had struck a position belonging to its fighters in the Janta area in the Bekaa valley.

“This new attack is a blatant act of aggression against Lebanon and its land,” Hezbollah said in a statement posted on its Web site, offering the first confirmation that Israel had struck a target inside Lebanon. The Lebanese army’s report left it unclear whether the strike had occurred on the Lebanese or Syrian side of the border.

Hezbollah said it would “choose the right time and place and the proper way to respond.
Israel PM Benyamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that Israel reserved the right to defend its interest however it deemed fit.