{"id":29662,"date":"2024-08-03T16:58:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=29662"},"modified":"2024-08-03T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:58:33","slug":"iran-expects-lebanese-hezbollah-to-hit-deeper-inside-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/iran-expects-lebanese-hezbollah-to-hit-deeper-inside-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Expects Lebanese Hezbollah to Hit Deeper Inside Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran said on Saturday it expects Lebanon\u2019s Tehran-backed Hezbollah group to hit deeper inside Israel and no longer be confined to military targets after Israel killed the Hezbollah military commander.<br \/>\nHezbollah has been exchanging near-daily fire with Israeli forces, saying it is targeting military positions over the border, since its Palestinian ally Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, sparking war in Gaza.<br \/>\nBut a strike claimed by Israel in an overcrowded residential area of South Beirut changed the calculus, Iran\u2019s mission to the United Nations said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe expect&#8230; Hezbollah to choose more targets and (strike) deeper in its response,\u201d said the mission quoted by the official IRNA news agency.<br \/>\nThe strike on Tuesday killed Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr. According to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry, five civilians also died.<br \/>\nIsrael said Shukr was responsible for rocket fire that killed 12 youths in the annexed Golan Heights and had directed Hezbollah\u2019s attacks on Israel since the Gaza war began.<br \/>\n\u201cHezbollah and the (Israeli) regime had observed certain lines,\u201d including limiting strikes to border areas and military targets, Iran\u2019s mission said.<br \/>\nThe Beirut strike crossed that line, it added.<br \/>\nHours after Shukr\u2019s killing, the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in a pre-dawn \u201chit\u201d on his accommodation in Tehran, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said.<br \/>\nIsrael has declined to comment.<br \/>\nOn Thursday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Israel and \u201cthose who are behind it must await our inevitable response\u201d to the killings of both Shukr and Haniyeh.<br \/>\nIran and Hamas have also vowed to retaliate.<br \/>\nIn Iran, the voices clamouring for revenge have intensified since Haniyeh\u2019s killing.<br \/>\nOn Saturday, the ultraconservative Kayhan daily said retaliatory operations were expected to be \u201cmore diverse, more dispersed and impossible to intercept.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Iran said on Saturday it expects Lebanon\u2019s Tehran-backed Hezbollah group to hit deeper inside Israel and no longer be confined to military targets after Israel killed the Hezbollah military commander. Hezbollah has been exchanging near-daily fire with Israeli forces, saying it is targeting military positions over the border, since its Palestinian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29664,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29662\/revisions\/29664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}