Bennett, after flare-up on northern border: Lebanon ‘must take responsibility’
International | August 8, 2021
Pointing the finger at Lebanon’s government after Hezbollah rocket fire hit northern Israel, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday that the Lebanese government and army “must take responsibility for what is happening in their backyard.”
“It is less important to us whether it is a Palestinian organization or rogue factions. The State of Israel will not accept firing into its territory,” Bennett said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Hezbollah fired 19 rockets at Israel on Friday, its heaviest assault since 2006.
“On the Lebanese front, there is a very important awakening of many citizens in the country against Hezbollah and the Iranian involvement in the country, which in [the midst of] the severe economic and political crisis there, are also embroiling them on the front with Israel,” he said, charging the Lebanese government with the responsibility to stop rocket fire into Israel….
(Excerpts from The Times of Israel)