The new Israeli Foreign Minister, Yisrael Katz, announced that Tel Aviv was responsible for the assassination of the leader of the Radwan unit in Hizb allah Lebanese Wissam Tawil in southern Lebanon.
Katz said – in an interview with Israeli Channel 14 – that this is part of the war, and that Tel Aviv's goal is to restore safety to northern and southern Israel.
He added, “We are making Hezbollah pay prices, and we are working to push it away from the borders more and more in practice, and this could end with intense international pressure, by the way, on Iran, to put pressure in turn on Hezbollah, because it realizes the price, as this could develop tomorrow into a comprehensive war.” .
He said that Israel is waging a war on several fronts, and it has prepared itself and has the capabilities for that, adding that American support for Israel is strategic support in the face of a third world war occurring around it, fought by the Iranian axis, as he described it.
Katz threatened Hezbollah, if the war developed, that it would receive a blow 50 times stronger than what happened in the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
Yesterday, Monday, Hezbollah announced the killing of prominent field leader Wissam Tawil in an Israeli raid that targeted a car in southern Lebanon.
His targeting came after a bombing operation carried out by Hezbollah – last Saturday – against the Israeli Meron air control base, which caused damage to the base, according to the Israeli army’s admission, and the party described it as part of an initial response to the assassination. Saleh Al-Arouri Vice President of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) in an air strike in the southern suburb of Beirut.
It is noteworthy that on November 22, Israel assassinated 5 commanders from the Radwan unit in Hezbollah forces.
In solidarity with Gaza stripHezbollah and Palestinian factions in Lebanon have exchanged intermittent daily bombardment with the Israeli army since October 8, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries on both sides of the border.