Israel on Friday warned Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from retaliating to an air-strike on a base controlled by the that allegedly originated from Israel. Israel has neither claimed or denied that they were responsible for the attack, although technically Israel is currently at war with Lebanon, and there has been three similar strikes in the past year. There has been bad blood between Israel and Lebanon ever since Israel was officially created as a state after World War II. Since then, Lebanon has been in open conflict with Israel multiple times, and is one of the countries that is most directly affected by the Arab-Israeli conflict, as it is a neighbor of Israel and has been the destination of most of the Palestinian refugees who have been displaced due to the violence.
Israel has made it clear that it will view the Lebanese government as responsible for any actions by Hezbollah taken against Israel. Hezbollah's official statement on the matter is that they are going to "choose the time and place and the proper way to respond" but many experts on the region believe that Hezbollah is too busy supporting the Assad regime in the Syrian Civil War to properly retaliate.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/28/us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-idUSBREA1R0NI20140228
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