IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi visits the site of a military drill in the north along with several top commanders, and makes his first public comments on the assassination yesterday of Hezbollah’s top military commander Fuad Shukr, also known as Hajj Mohsin.
“Mohsin is the most senior military official in Hezbollah, and he is also very close to [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah; in fact he organizes all the military issues for him — organized, in past tense,” he says.
Halevi says Shukr was responsible for ordering the killing of many civilians in the north.
He says the army has solid plans laid out, “because our goal with Hezbollah is to not go back to the October 6 [status quo]” — referring to the Lebanese terror group maintaining a continued presence on the Israel border, in violation of a UN Security Council resolution that said it should keep dozens of kilometers away.
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