Katz said in the interview: “Regarding the strike in southern Lebanon, we took responsibility, and this is part of our war.”
The Israeli Foreign Minister added: “We target Hezbollah members and the infrastructure and systems they were able to put in place to deter Israel.”
He continued, saying: “We are making Hezbollah pay the price in this war, in which we operate according to specific rules. We did not set our goal to thwart 150,000 missiles. Our goal was to restore security to the residents of the north and south and to the State of Israel.”
Katz, who took office last month, confirmed: “With regard to the damage caused to southern Lebanon, we took responsibility for the assassination of the commander of the Radwan Force. This is part of the war. We are causing harm to Hezbollah and its infrastructure.”
Who is Wissam Tawil?
• Israeli sources revealed, on Monday, that Wissam Tawil, a leader in Hezbollah’s “Radwan Brigade,” was killed in an Israeli bombing.
• Israeli media reported that Tawil was responsible for launching rockets at the Israeli Meron base last Saturday.
• Tawil is the highest-ranking military official in Hezbollah, and Israel has been able to assassinate him since the seventh of last October.
• According to the Lebanese News Agency, citing Hezbollah, Tawil joined the ranks of the movement in 1989.
• Tawil underwent many military courses.
• He assumed the reconnaissance mission in the Iqlim al-Tuffah axis after the Israeli attack on Lebanon in April 1996, after which he assumed responsibility for the axis itself.
• He participated in the operations that targeted Israeli sites in Shebaa Farms after the year 2000.
• He fought in the 2006 war.
• After the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, Tawil led operations that targeted Israeli army positions on the Lebanese border.
• He was assassinated while on his way to his village of Khirbet Selm in southern Lebanon.
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