Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Thursday that anyone attacking the Jewish state will pay a “very high price” after Israel confirmed it had killed top Hezbollah and Hamas commanders in recent attacks.
Following the confirmation of the deaths of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr and Hamas commander Mohammed Deif, Prime Minister Netanyahu held a detailed investigation together with generals and senior officers at the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Home Front Command.
“Israel is extremely prepared for all scenarios, both defensive and offensive,” Netanyahu said. “Any act of aggression against us from any direction will come at a very high price.”
Shukr, also known as Haji Mohsin, was the mastermind behind the drone attack that killed 12 children and young people at the weekend on a soccer field in the Golan Heights. He was a senior adviser to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah when he was killed in an IDF strike south of Beirut on Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a detailed assessment on Thursday with generals and senior officers at the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Home Front Command. (Mayan Toaf (GPO))
According to the Israel Defense Forces, Deif, together with Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ supreme leader in the Gaza Strip, initiated, planned and carried out the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7. Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and abducted 251 hostages in the Gaza Strip. Sinwar is believed to be hiding out in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel would “demand a very high price for any act of aggression against us, from whatever quarter.” (Ma’ayan Toaf (GPO))
Israel confirmed on Thursday that Deif was killed in an IDF attack in Gaza on July 13.
Commenting on Deif’s death, Prime Minister Netanyahu said: “His removal underscores a simple principle we have laid down: whoever harms us, we will harm them too.”
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Tensions in the Middle East have risen further this week with the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Israel has not publicly admitted responsibility for the killing, but Iran and Hamas have accused the Jewish state of being behind it.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, “Haniya was martyred on our soil and it is Iran’s duty to avenge his blood.”
Fox News’ Yonat Frilling, Scott McDonald, Chris Pandolfo and Greg Norman contributed to this report.
