Israel says it can send Lebanon 'back to Stone Age'
The UN health chief warned that this conflict would be "potentially apocalyptic", saying Israel does not want war in Lebanon but could take its neighbors "back to the Stone Age".
Since October 7, when Hezbollah's allies Hamas attacked Israel and turned Gaza into war, Israeli forces and Iranian-backed Hezbollah forces have been exchanging fire every day on the border between the two countries.
In recent weeks, concerns have grown that these talks could escalate into an all-out war, as cross-border attacks intensified and Israel announced it had approved plans to attack Lebanon and the new threat from Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Israel could "take Lebanon back to the Stone Age, but we don't want to do that," Israeli Defense Minister Yov Galant said during a visit to Washington on Wednesday.
"We do not want war, but we are preparing for any possibility," he told reporters.
"Hezbollah knows very well that if we start a war, we can cause great damage to Lebanon." A US official said Washington was in "good talks" with Israel, Lebanon and others and believed no one expected "significant escalation".
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told Gallant on Tuesday that a new war with Hezbollah "...
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