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Israeli official warns Hezbollah against aiding Iran
14 August, 2012 – Al Akhbar

A senior Israeli military official warned Hezbollah on Tuesday it will suffer a “harsh and painful” blow if it assists Iran in the event of an Israeli strike against the Islamic republic, Israeli media reported.

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth cited an anonymous official who said Israel will target all of Lebanon, and not just Hezbollah strongholds, in any future war.

“Hezbollah will not be the only one to pay the price; the entire nation of Lebanon will,” he said.

“I suggest Hezbollah not test us.”

The Israeli official conceded Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal has increased since the last war in July 2006, and that its capabilities can reach the entire Jewish state.

“Since the Second Lebanon War there have been six years of calm. After the next war there will be 10 years of calm,” he said.

Hezbollah and Israel have engaged in a war of words in recent months, issuing threats and counter-threats as speculation mounts of a possible Israeli strike on Iran.

The Lebanese Shia group is an important ally of Iran, and successfully thwarted an Israeli invasion attempt in 2006.

The official’s remarks come a day after former Israeli Mossad chief Danny Yatom said Israel would have to destroy parts of Lebanon and Gaza as part of any strike on Iran, to offset threats on its borders.

“We will have to stop the firing of missiles, both from the north and the south, as quickly as possible.”

To do this, he said, Israel would have to “act with great force against infrastructure in Lebanon and Gaza, and it is possible that the price that Lebanon and Gaza will pay will be horrible,” he told Israel Radio on Monday.

“We are liable to destroy, or likely to destroy, parts of Lebanon, and parts of Gaza, so that our citizens will not suffer and be killed,” he said.

Hezbollah denies member kidnapped in Syria

Meanwhile, Hezbollah denied on Tuesday a media report that a member had been kidnapped by Syrian rebels in Syria.

Saudi channel Al-Arabiya reported that Hassan Salim al-Miqdad had been detained by the Free Syrian Army in Damascus, a claim denied by Hezbollah’s media office.

In a statement, Hezbollah said that Miqdad was not a member of the party.

Hezbollah is still working to secure the release of 11 kidnapped Lebanese Shia pilgrims being held near Aleppo by rebels.

The pilgrims were detained while returning from a trip in Iran by bus in May. The rebels released the women on the bus, but kept the men, charging them with being members of Hezbollah.

Hezbollah denied the charges, insisting the men were pilgrims, while the released female relatives, now in Beirut, continue to claim that the Free Syrian Army was responsible for the kidnapping.

The Free Syrian Army denied at the time it was involved.

Hezbollah has stood by President Bashar al-Assad during the uprising, angering Syria’s opposition groups who had hoped Lebanon’s powerful Shia movement would back their revolt.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has previously stated he was willing to play a mediation role between opposition groups and the regime. …source