France calls for restraint after IDF strike kills Hezbollah army chief

By Lazar Berman

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24 November 2025, 5:44 pm

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Left: Rescuers search for survivors at the site of an airstrike that killed Hezbollah's military chief in a residential building in Beirut's southern Haret Hreik neighborhood on November 23, 2025. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP); Right: Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai, in a poster issued by the terror group after his death. (Hezbollah Media Office)

France’s Foreign Ministry expresses “deep concern” over Israel’s strike yesterday that killed Hezbollah’s military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai in Beirut, saying that it “increases the risk of escalation in an already highly tense situation.”

“France calls on all sides to exercise restraint,” the ministry continues in a statement to reporters. “It emphasizes the importance of using the cease-fire monitoring mechanism, which is designed for reporting threats. This framework, which all sides have recognized, is essential for preventing unilateral actions and ensuring the security of the civilian population in Lebanon and Israel, in accordance with the cease-fire agreement of November 27, 2024.”