Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Hezbollah has been miscalculating Israel since 2006 until today, adding that his government "prefers to restore security to the north, without a large-scale war."

This came in blog posts published by Netanyahu’s office on the “X” platform, which conveyed statements made by the Israeli Prime Minister to a number of soldiers on the border with Lebanon in northern Israel.

According to Netanyahu's office, the latter visited the soldiers and listened to security reports.

Netanyahu's office did not clarify whether the Israeli Prime Minister made these statements before or after the raid that killed the prominent field commander of the Lebanese "Hezbollah", Wissam Al-Tawil, on Monday morning, and Israel was accused of being responsible for it, while it did not officially announce its responsibility until 1:35 p.m. 

Netanyahu told the soldiers: “Hezbollah misjudged us in 2006, and it is making a big mistake in our judgment even now,” according to the same source.

He added: “Hezbollah thought we were a spider’s web, and suddenly he saw what a spider it was,” referring to the words of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah in several speeches, most notably dating back to the period of the “July 2006 War,” in which he said that Israel and its army “ Weaker than a spider's web."

He continued: "It (Hezbollah) sees here a tremendous force, a united people, and a determination to do everything necessary to restore security in the north, and I tell you: this is my policy."

In this context, Netanyahu stressed in his speech to the soldiers: “We will do our best to restore security in the north and allow your families, as many of you are local residents, to return to their homes safely and in the knowledge that we cannot be messed with.”

He continued: "We will do whatever it takes, and of course, we prefer that this be done without a large-scale (war) campaign, but that will not stop us."

Last December, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant vowed to remove Hezbollah beyond the Litani River in southern Lebanon, “whether by international political arrangement or military action.”

Otherwise, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said, on the 17th of the same month, that “nothing will prevent the outbreak of war with Lebanon except the implementation of International Resolution 1701 to remove Hezbollah fighters to the north of the Litani River.”

On August 11, 2006, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1701, which called for a complete cessation of hostilities between Lebanon and Israel, after a 33-day war between Hezbollah and the Israeli army.

The resolution calls for the creation of an area between the Blue Line (separating Lebanon and Israel) and the Litani River in southern Lebanon, free of any militants, military equipment and weapons, except for those belonging to the Lebanese Army and the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL).

In "solidarity with the Gaza Strip", Hezbollah and Palestinian factions in Lebanon have exchanged intermittent daily bombardment with the Israeli army since October 8, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries on both sides of the border.

Tensions escalated and attacks were exchanged between the two sides, following Israel's assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri, the deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, last week in Beirut.