Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday that Israel has been attacking "everything linked to missile-manufacturing" in Syria, in rare comments on Israeli attacks in the war-torn country.
Nasrallah said that Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia backed by Iran, would not withdraw from Syria as a result of Israeli strikes.
Israel has launched hundreds of attacks in Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011, targeting government troops, allied Iranian forces and fighters from Hezbollah.
Israel and the US have long designated Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
Israel will keep up its operations in Syria until its arch enemy Iran leaves, Defence Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday after strikes on Iranian-backed militias and their allies killed 14 fighters.
Mr Bennett, speaking to the state-owned Kan 11 television news channel, did not claim Israeli responsibility for the latest overnight strikes on Syria.
But he said: "Iran has nothing to do in Syria ... (and) we won't stop before they leave Syria".
He accused Iran of "trying to establish itself on the border with Israel to threaten Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa".
The Israeli defence minister said Iran should be more concerned with its own citizens and mounting domestic problems.
"They have enough problems at home with the coronavirus (and) the collapsing economy," he said.
Iran on Tuesday announced that confirmed coronavirus infections had reached almost 100,000, while the overall death toll from Covid-19 topped 6,000.
Iran is facing economic hardship that worsened after US President Donald Trump withdrew from a landmark nuclear clear and reimposed unilateral sanctions on Tehran in 2018, targeting key oil and banking sectors.
