Hezbollah tells US to halt Israel's Gaza attack to prevent regional war

The head of Hezbollah in Lebanon issued a warning to the US on Friday, stating that halting Israel's assault on Gaza was necessary to avert a regional confrontation and that fighting on the Lebanese front would escalate into a full-scale war.

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 US warships in the Mediterranean, posing a threat 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.

Since October 8, Hezbollah and Israeli forces have engaged in gunfire along the Lebanese-Israeli border, resulting in the deaths of around fifty-five of its militants. However, the fighting has mainly stayed inside the border, and Hezbollah has only deployed a small portion of the armament that Nasrallah has been threatening Israel with for a long time.