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Hezbollah’s leader says it has ‘right to respond’ to Israel’s killing of military chief
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Mourners carry the coffin of top Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai during his funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 24, 2025. (Ibrahim AMRO / AFP)
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah’s leader says the terror group has the right to respond to Israel’s assassination of its top military chief in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs last week.
In a televised speech, Naim Qassem calls the killing of Haytham Ali Tabtabai “a blatant aggression and a heinous crime,” adding that his group had “the right to respond, and we will determine the timing for that.”
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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