Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel against any attempt to plunder Lebanon’s offshore gas and oil reserves in its territorial waters as a dispute over the demarcation of maritime borders with the Jewish regime worsens.
It was Nasrallah’s first public threat to fight Israel since a long-simmering dispute over offshore gas and oil deposits in the eastern Mediterranean burst out into the open earlier this month following the Israeli regime’s approval of a map of its proposed maritime borders which Lebanon deemed an aggression and an infringement on its right to an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Lebanese Daily Star newspaper reported.
In a televised speech marking the fifth anniversary of his group’s 33-day war with Israel in 2006, Nasrallah also promised victory in any future military conflict with the Jewish regime, saying Hezbollah was better equipped and stronger than before.
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