Israeli Res Maj Gen calls for taking Nasrallah's threats seriously

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Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's threats made against the Israeli occupation on Monday must be taken seriously, Israeli occupation Reserve Major General Amos Gilad said Tuesday.

"Nasrallah's threats must be taken seriously, and [the Israeli occupation forces] must prepare," Gilad told Israeli public broadcaster KAN. "If they attack the Karish rig or any other rig, that will definitely lead to a confrontation that can have many dimensions."

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah "simply wants to sponsor this agreement if it happens and say 'I am the defender of Lebanon. It is because of me that Lebanon has advantages in the ongoing confrontation with Israel'," the IOF officer said.

"We do not know if the Iranians were behind this, but I do not believe they were," he added.

Reserve Major General Yitzhak Brik highlighted that "Hezbollah has about 100,000 missiles, and they have hundreds of UAVs directed at strategic targets, residential, and, of course, on Israel's gas rigs."

"It is just a matter of time before this happens," Brik added.

Israeli media reported Tuesday that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) officers warned that the Ground Forces were "ill-prepared" for war.

In a report, Israel Hayom pointed out that since the July 2006 war on Lebanon, the IOF "has made a calculated choice to reduce the deployment of its Ground Forces, favoring the Israeli Air Force instead, mostly with the aim of minimizing casualties."

This come right after Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah related to Al Mayadeen, as part of the "Dialogue of the 40th Anniversary", the achievements of the Resistance over the past several decades.

Warning the Israeli occupation against committing any provocations against Lebanon, Sayyed Nasrallah said there were no Israeli targets in the sea or land out of the reach of the Resistance's precision missiles.

Sayyed Nasrallah underscored that the Israeli occupation realized, through the July war, that confrontation with the resistance was dangerous and that the resistance's capabilities were much more than just confrontations at the border.

"Since 2006, the enemy does not dare take any action against Lebanon," the Resistance leader said, noting that "Tel Aviv" was only resorting to run-of-the-mill operations that leave no mark in Lebanon.

The Israeli occupation forces over the past few months have been simulating various scenarios, including a missile attack on several targets in "Israel's" maritime economic zone, Israeli media reported on Tuesday, citing senior security sources.