Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday the warning directed at Hezbollah that the group should not join the clashes between his country and Hamas as that would escalate the crisis.
"If Hezbollah decides to enter the war, it will long for the Second Lebanon War," Netanyahu said during a visit to the Commando Brigade in northern Israel. "It will be making the mistake of its life. We will strike it with strength that it cannot even imagine, and the significance to it and to the country of Lebanon will be devastating."
Netanyahu recently described Hamas as a "part of an axis of evil of Iran and Hezbollah," whose "open goal is to eradicate the State of Israel." Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commented on its occasional clashes with the latter group by saying that "any time Hezbollah shoots, we will shoot back."