Watan-In the style of its usual theatrical productions, the media arm of the Lebanese Hezbollah party released a video on Friday evening, threatening Israel with disappearance. The video depicted a purported breach of the border fence and intense confrontations between resistance forces and the Israeli occupation army.

In the video titled “Rejoice, Gaza! The promise of God is near,” Hezbollah threatened Israel with disappearance. A banner appeared with the words “By God, Israel will vanish,” a phrase the party often uses, while enemy aircraft roam day and night in the skies of Lebanon and Syria.

فلتُبشِري يا غزّة، جاء وعد الله وهو قريب. pic.twitter.com/MJgtNGeufa

— السيّد باسل (@_sayedbasel) April 5, 2024

Members of the party closely affiliated with Iran were also seen saluting the Palestinian flag.

Hezbollah’s media arm attached a song to the video it posted on social media pages, claiming there is no turning back and that the appointment will be in Jerusalem.

Some of its lyrics say: “Rejoice, Gaza! The promise of God is near, and tomorrow there is no turning back. Friday, we pray our promise in Jerusalem, and it is near.”

The attack will not go unanswered

This came after Iranian leaders renewed their pledge to respond after an airstrike widely blamed on Israel destroyed the Iranian consulate in Syria, resulting in the deaths of 12 people, including two Iranian elite generals.

Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said on Wednesday that the attack “will not go unanswered.”

U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Alexis Grinkovich, the top commander of U.S. Air Forces in the Middle East, said the United States is concerned that the deadly strike in Damascus could lead to new attacks on U.S. forces by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.

Iran and its allies, including the Lebanese Hezbollah group and other armed groups in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, have repeatedly exchanged fire with Israel and the United States since the beginning of the Israeli war in Gaza.

Israel faces increasing isolation as international criticism mounts over its killing of six foreign relief workers in what was known as the “World Central Kitchen” last week, as they were helping deliver much-needed food in Gaza.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed on Friday that the Iranian response to targeting the consulate in Damascus was inevitable, and the enemy entity has begun to take precautions against the Iranian response, according to him.

Nasrallah claimed in a speech during the mass celebration organized by Hezbollah on the occasion of International Quds Day that the timing of the Iranian response is part of the battle, but the timing, place, and magnitude of the response are in the hands of Ali Khamenei and the Iranian leaders.

He added, “Everyone should prepare themselves and arrange their affairs and take precautions when the Iranian side responds to targeting the Iranian consulate and how the Zionist enemy will respond to the Iranian response,” considering that “the folly committed by Netanyahu in the consulate will open the door to relief and to decisive victory in the battle.”