Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a stark warning to Hezbollah Wednesday: Join an Iranian attack on Israel, and you will lose more territory.

He also threatened Hezbollah’s leader, Naim Qassem, with the same fate that befell the previous leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

The minister said he had visited the region to offer encouragement to the troops there “who are operating with dedication and bravery within the security zones in Lebanon and Syria to protect the residents of the Galilee and the Golan from threats by jihadist forces,” adding that Israel will not withdraw from the security zones it has already captured.

“If Hezbollah joins Iran in an attack on Israel, it will be struck a severe blow and lose additional territories in southern Lebanon in the areas of Nabatieh and the Litani, which will become part of Israel’s permanent security zone,” Katz warned.

“The IDF is prepared to execute the maneuver,” he declared.

The defense minister outlined the IDF’s next plan to deal a devastating blow to Hezbollah, saying that the Shiite community up to the Awali and Zahle line will be evacuated farther north to enable the IDF to obliterate the terror infrastructure in the region and to eliminate the Hezbollah drone threat to Israel’s northern communities. He also said that the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut will be evacuated, displacing about a million Shiites, in order to deal a devastating blow to the terror infrastructure embedded in the city.

Katz then warned Qassem that if he followed in his predecessor’s footsteps, he would meet the same fate.

“Nasrallah destroyed the Shiite community in Lebanon until he was thwarted, and Naim Qassem may completely devastate it, until he too is eliminated, and sent to meet Nasrallah and his successor in the depths of hell,” the defense minister vowed.