Hezbollah fighters during a military parade in South Lebanon in 2019. (Credit: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)
An Israeli strike on south
Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah's elite
Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters.
The security sources identified him as Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy head of a unit within the Radwan force. They said he and another Hezbollah fighter were killed when their car was hit in a strike on the Lebanese village of Khirbet Silm.
"This is a very painful strike," one of the security sources said. Another said, "Things will flare up now."
Israeli bombardment has killed more than 130 Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon since cross-border shelling began in the aftermath of Hamas's attack on Israeli territory on Oct. 7. Another 19 have been killed in Syria.
Hezbollah's secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel in two televised addresses last week not to launch a full-scale war on Lebanon.
"Whoever thinks of war with us – in one word, he will regret it," Nasrallah said.
Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah's elite
Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters.
The security sources identified him as Wissam al-Tawil, the
deputy head of a unit within the Radwan force. They said he and
another Hezbollah fighter were killed when their car was hit in
a strike on the Lebanese village of Khirbet Silm.
"This is a very painful strike," one of the security sources
said. Another said, "Things will flare up now."
Israeli bombardment has killed more than 130 Hezbollah
fighters in southern Lebanon since cross-border shelling began
in the aftermath of Hamas's attack on Israeli territory on Oct.
7. Another 19 have been killed in Syria.
Hezbollah's secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah...
