TEHRAN: Iran mentioned on Saturday (Aug 3) it expects Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah group to hit deeper inside Israel and not be confined to army targets after Israel killed the Hezbollah army commander.
Hezbollah has been exchanging near-daily hearth with Israeli forces, saying it’s concentrating on army positions over the border, since its Palestinian ally Hamas attacked Israel on Oct 7, sparking the warfare in Gaza.
However a strike claimed by Israel in an overcrowded residential space of South Beirut modified the calculus, Iran’s mission to the United Nations mentioned.
“We count on … Hezbollah to decide on extra targets and (strike) deeper in its response,” mentioned the mission quoted by the official IRNA information company.
“Secondly, that it’s going to not restrict its response to army targets.”
The strike on Tuesday killed Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr. In accordance with Lebanon’s well being ministry, 5 civilians – three girls and two youngsters – additionally died.
Israel mentioned Shukr was chargeable for rocket hearth that killed 12 youths within the annexed Golan Heights and had directed Hezbollah’s assaults on Israel because the Gaza warfare started.
“Hezbollah and the (Israeli) regime had noticed sure strains”, together with limiting strikes to frame areas and army targets, Iran’s mission mentioned.
The Beirut strike crossed that line, it added.
