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Katz says Lebanese president ‘dragging his feet’ on disarming Hezbollah
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Defense Minister Israel Katz at the graduation of an IDF officers' course, October 30, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)
Defense Minister Israel Katz says that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is stalling in efforts to disarm the Hezbollah terror group, and warns Israel will act if Beirut does not.
“Hezbollah is playing with fire and the Lebanese president is dragging his feet,” Katz says in a post on X after the IDF confirms it carried out a strike last night killing a senior official in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force and three other force members.
“The Lebanese government’s commitment to disarm Hezbollah and remove it from southern Lebanon must be realized,” Katz says.
“Maximum enforcement will continue and deepen – we will not allow a threat to the residents of the [Israeli] north,” he says.
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