Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister Binyamin NetanyahuYonatan Sindel/Flash 90

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has offered a veiled message for Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah, stating, "Our enemies should know that we will aggressively retaliate for any attack against us."

He made the statement during a ceremony awarding the year's best Mossad workers, only a couple days after Nasrallah threatened to attack Israel in return for the death of Samir Kuntar. Israel has not commented on the alleged operation.

During his speech, Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke about the Mossad's importance in the face of continued threats. "The world is changing and the Mossad is changing with it. Its role and importance in the maintaining our national security is growing. Today we are facing a new threat. Because of the rise of extremist Islam, we find ourselves...in a world war against two large factions of extremist Islam which spread across the globe. We are obligated to deal with these threats, and these two threats are linked to one another."

He closed by quoting the book of Psalms: "He neither slumbers nor sleeps, the Guard of Israel."

The two factions presumably refer to terror groups from both the Sunni and Shi'ite branches of Islam, including ISIS and Iran, respectively.