Netanyahu warns Lebanon of ‘destruction like Gaza’

Israel’s prime minister has made a direct appeal to urge the Lebanese people to throw out Hezbollah and avoid “destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza”.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s appeal on Tuesday came as Israel expanded its ground invasion against Hezbollah by sending thousands more troops into a new zone in south-west Lebanon.

Netanyahu also claimed the Israel Defense Forces had killed the successor to Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, but the IDF later said it could not confirm Hashem Safieddine’s death.

Elsewhere, Hezbollah’s fighters launched barrages of rockets towards the Israeli port city of Haifa for the third consecutive day, injuring 12 people. (BBC News)

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