Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant claimed on Monday evening that Iran is establishing a new airport in the Qalaat Jabour mountain area in southern Lebanon, 20 kilometers from the border of northern occupied Palestine.

Gallant said at a conference of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy at Reichmann University that this airport is being built with the aim of attacking Israel, showing aerial and satellite images of the location of the airport, and the Iranian flag and the Hezbollah flag flying in the place.

Gallant said: “The land is Lebanese, the control is Iranian, and the destination is Israel.”

He sent a message to Hezbollah and Lebanon, in which he said: “If we reach a conflict, we will not hesitate to use the deadly force of the Israeli army... Hezbollah and Lebanon will pay a heavy and painful price.”

He considered that Iran currently represents the greatest threat to Israel, regional stability, and the global order, pointing to its efforts to try to reach a military nuclear capability, which are closer than ever before.

The Israeli Defense Minister accused Iran of carrying out a geographical and ideological takeover of the countries of the region and encouraging "terrorist" attacks around the world. According to him.

According to him, the Iranian goal is to create a war of attrition against Israel on all its borders, while at the same time continuing to develop and equip nuclear weapons, considering that these efforts affect every country in our surroundings.

He touched on what are described as Hezbollah's provocations on the northern border, saying: "The repeated provocations by Hezbollah on the northern border are an arrogant and dangerous act, with Iranian encouragement."

He sent a threatening letter to the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, in which he said: “He wants to portray himself as the defender of Lebanon, but in reality he is making Lebanon and its citizens hostage to serve Iranian and Shiite interests... If he miscalculates, he will become destructive to Lebanon.”

He also claimed that Iran is trying to build a front against Israel from various borders, and has recently been working from the joint Jordanian-Iraqi border with the aim of controlling it, including exploiting this to smuggle weapons to the West Bank, and that Hamas and Jihad in the Gaza Strip are increasingly involved in the Iranian axis of evil. According to him.