Hassan Nasrallah
Hassan NasrallahReuters

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke this morning from the bunker in which he is currently taking refuge and threatened war against Israel.

According to the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar, Nasrallah addressed Israeli citizens, telling them that “The Netanyahu government is leading your nation to destruction. Don’t allow a foolish government to sweep you along with it.”

According to Nasrallah, “ Netanyahu and his government don’t know if they have started a war and how they will finish it. They have no true picture of reality; if they did, they wouldn’t proceed to this folly of war.”

Nasrallah also called on “Non-Zionist Jews” “to separate themselves from the Zionists, who are leading themselves to unpreventable destruction. I call on all those who came to occupied Palestine to leave and return to the countries from which they came, so as not to serve as fuel for the war that their foolish government will wage.”

Housing Minister Yoav Galant (Kulanu) said in response, “Nasrallah is a dead man. We will take off the kid gloves in the next confrontation. Nasrallah speaks from his bunker with good reason. If he makes a mistake and starts a war, we will throw Lebanon back into the Stone Age.”