Netanyahu warns Hezbollah terror chief 'don't test us, you will pay dearly'

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned enemies including Hezbollah "testing" Israel.

- Cyril Dixon

The under-pressure leader reiterated that he has no plans to impose a temporary ceasefire in Gaza until all 240 hostages are released.

It came as the leader of terror group Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah warned that Hamas's war with the Jewish state is "now on more than one front" after the Iranian-backed militia launched missiles from Lebanon in the north.

Nasrallah also praised Hamas's massacre of 1,400 people on October 7, saying the "glorious jihadi operation" - which they call the Al-Aqsa Flood - revealed the weakness of Israel and its army. Mr Netanyahu hit back yesterday: "I tell our enemies in the north, don't test us, you will pay dearly.

"As for the northern front, I reiterate to our enemies - do not be mistaken about us.

"Such a mistake will be very costly. You will pay an unimaginable price." Earlier, Nasrallah goaded Israel and Mr Netanyahu as he praised last month's "blessed" bloodbath.

The Lebanese cleric used his first speech since the incursion, which inflicted the biggest single loss of Jewish lives since the Holocaust, to warn: "I assure you, this will not be the end."