“We have the ability to take Lebanon back to the Stone Age, but we don’t want to do it. (…) We don’t want a war.” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has been clear, Israel does not want conflict with its Lebanese neighbor, but his government is preparing “for any scenario”. “Hezbollah understands very well that we can inflict enormous damage on Lebanon if a war is launched”, threatened Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday June 27, after a visit of several days to Washington. Follow our live stream.
Fears of conflict spreading to Lebanon. An extension of the war to Lebanon what Israel is doing against Hamas would be “potentially apocalyptic”according to Martin Griffiths, head of humanitarian affairs at the UN. “I see this as the spark that will ignite the powder”he further estimated.
New bombings in Gaza and Lebanon. Bombings in different areas of the Gaza Strip took place overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, while in Lebanon, five people were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a building in Nabatiyeh, according to the official Lebanese agency Ani .
Attacks in Syria and Yemen. Two people were killed in an Israeli strike near Damascus, the official Sana agency announced, citing a military source. In Yemen, the United States claimed to have destroyed a “radar” Houthi rebels, allies of Hamas, who threaten international maritime traffic in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.