Israel’s defense chief warns Hezbollah after group signals support for Iran

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Hezbollah on Friday to stay out of the Iran-Israel conflict, saying the group “has not learned the lesson of its predecessors.”

“The Lebanese proxy should be careful and understand that if there is terror – there will be no Hezbollah,” Katz wrote on X.

His comments followed a statement by Hezbollah’s leader Sheikh Naim Qassem, who said the group was not neutral in the face of Israeli and US aggression and backed Iran’s right to defend itself.