Hezbollah tells US: Halt Israel’s Gaza attack to prevent regional war.

Hezbollah’s commander in Lebanon issued a warning to the US on Friday, stating that there was a genuine chance that combat on the Lebanese front would escalate into a “wide war” and that ending Israel’s offensive on Gaza would be necessary to avert a regional conflict.

In his first statement since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on October 7, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah hinted that his Iran-backed force was prepared to take on American warships in the Mediterranean, posing a danger to Israel’s principal ally, the United States.

Since it is your assault against Gaza, you Americans can put an end to it. “The aggression on Gaza must stop immediately, and I am talking to the Americans, whoever wants to prevent a regional war,” stated Nasrallah.

“You, the Americans, know very well that if war breaks out in the region, your fleets will be of no use, nor will fighting from the air be of any benefit, and the ones who will pay the price will be… your interests, your soldiers, and your fleets,” he said.

He claimed that Hezbollah was not terrified of the American warships in the Mediterranean. “I tell you with all sincerity, we have prepared well for your fleets, with which you are threatening us,” he stated.

After the militants of the Islamist organization launched a cross-border attack on Gaza on October 7, killing approximately 1,400 people and taking around 240 captives back to the Palestinian enclave, Israel imposed a crushing embargo on the Hamas-ruled region.

According to Gaza’s health officials, since Israel began its assault on the 2.3 million Palestinian coastal enclave, at least 9,227 people have died, many of them women and children.

The bloodiest escalation since it engaged Israel in the war in 2006 has involved Hezbollah, a potent military force with Iran’s support, fighting Israeli soldiers along the Lebanon-Israel border. This fighting has been going on since the Gaza conflict broke out.

According to Nasrallah, Israel is being forced to maintain soldiers close to its northern border rather than in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank to the southwest as a result of Hezbollah’s daily advances at the Lebanese front.

According to him, how that front plays out will depend on what happens in Gaza and what Israel does in Lebanon.