‘Israeli’ Defence Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday warned there would be "no calm" in Lebanon if ‘Israel's’ security was not guaranteed, as their forces intensify operations despite a year-old ceasefire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

 

"We will not allow any threats against the inhabitants of the north, and maximum enforcement will continue and even intensify," Katz told the ‘Israeli’ parliament.

 

"As we prepared for a few days ago with the elimination -- there will be no calm in Beirut, nor order and stability in Lebanon, until the security of the State of Israel is guaranteed," he added, referring to the killing of a top Hezbollah military chief in an ‘Israeli’ strike on Beirut's southern suburbs days earlier.

 

"Hezbollah: we will disarm them."