JERUSALEM - An Israeli general says his country will respond with "disproportionate force" if Hezbollah guerrillas attack Israel.
Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot says Israel will "cause huge damage and destruction" in any Lebanese village from which guerrillas launch rockets. Eizenkot commands forces along the border with Lebanon. In the summer of 2006 Israel and Hezbollah fought a costly 34-day war after guerrillas attacked an Israeli border patrol.
He spoke in an interview with the daily Yediot Ahronot published Friday.
The general said the military's plan for a future conflict was not to "hunt" individual rocket launchers, saying Hezbollah has too many to make that effective.
He said Israel would use "very aggressive fire" against broader targets.
