IDF chief: Challenging days ahead, we are determined to destroy Hezbollah

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi in a video statement says the military will continue fighting Hezbollah to remove the threat that it poses to Israeli civilians.

He also says Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed because he sought to destroy Israel.

“Challenging days are ahead of us,” Halevi says after approving battle plans at the Northern Command. “IDF troops are on peak alert, on defense and offense, on all fronts.”

“Nasrallah killed Israeli civilians indiscriminately. He wanted this war to end with the destruction of Israel, we made sure that wouldn’t happen. We killed him, and we will get stronger,” he says.

Halevi says the IDF will not allow the Hezbollah threat to remain. “We are determined to continue to destroy the Hezbollah terror group. We are determined to continue fighting,” he says.

The IDF chief adds that the IDF has missions on other fronts as well, including “destroying terror organizations and their capabilities [in Gaza], returning the hostages… and returning the residents to the north and south to their homes safely.”