Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah announced in a speech on Tuesday that the Shiite group now aims to strike new Israeli positions, “deeper in the country.”

Speaking of Israel killing the organization’s top commander, Fuad SoukrNasrallah threatened that Hezbollah’s latest military operations “they have nothing to do with his retaliation which we promised, which have not yet come.” Hezbollah’s response to Israeli attacks will be strong and effective, Nasrallah continued.

Elaborating on Shukr’s death, the Hezbollah chief admitted that his organization suffered a great lossdeclaring however that “this does not weaken us or shake us”.

The death of the commander of Hamas Ismail Haniya it was a big blow to Hamas and the resistance axis, he still admitted.

“We will not allow Netanyahu and the Zionists to defeat the resistance in Gaza and the West Bank,” Nasrallah said.

“Zionists want a Jewish state to be formed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. They don’t care if Palestinians live there,” he argued.

“Everyone must understand the great danger of the criminal Zionists,” he added.

Multiple drone incursion warnings were sounded in Nahariya and Acre in the Western Galilee in northern Israel at around 12:21pm on Tuesday.

Alarms were also sounded in the Lochamei HaGetaot, Evron and Regba kibbutzim.

According to Israeli media, at least five people were injured, one of whom is said to be in critical condition.

Hezbollah admitted to striking Israeli military units

Hezbollah confirmed that it carried out an airstrike in northern Israel that caused casualties.

In a statement, the Lebanese group said that it launched a series of drones to the headquarters of the Israeli Golani brigade, an infantry brigade, and the headquarters of the Egoz unit, an elite commando unit, located in the Shraga barracks near the border with Lebanon.

The attacks “they accurately hit their targets and suffered losses”, the group said, adding that its response to the killing of Fud Shukr, a senior military commander, in an Israeli strike in Beirut last week was “yet to come.”

Tensions in the region have escalated in the last week after the killing of Tehran of the head of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas and after the Israeli strike in the suburbs of Beirut that killed a top commander of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

In this climate, the Lebanese government is trying to prevent a Hezbollah response against Israel that could start a wider war, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib said on Tuesday during a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart.

Earlier, the Lebanese medical and security services announced that four people were killed today in an Israeli strike on a residence in the southern Lebanese city of Maifantoun. The security source said all four dead were men.

While most exchanges of fire between the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and the Israeli army have been confined to the border, Maifantoun is located about 30 kilometers north of Lebanon’s border with Israel.