Galant Threatens the Party: We Will Respond Fivefold

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant stated today, Sunday, according to the Israeli newspaper "Ma'ariv," that "if Hezbollah wants to escalate to one level, we will respond to it five times the degree of escalation." He added, "We will return the settlements in the north to their previous state either through an agreement or by force." Tension has been ongoing in the southern front since the beginning of the war between Hamas and Israel, with Hezbollah targeting Israeli military sites and settlements with various weapons, while the Israeli army responds by shelling towns and border areas with artillery and occasionally conducting airstrikes. According to Israeli media, all settlements adjacent to Lebanon have become almost deserted, and the residents of these settlements refuse to return amid the presence of Hezbollah soldiers at the border.