The Lebanese Hezbollah mourned Wissam Tawil, one of the party’s field commanders and an official in the Radwan unit, who is considered the most prominent military commander assassinated by Israel since the beginning of the confrontations between the two sides in the wake of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation launched by the Palestinian resistance on the seventh of last October.
The party said, in a statement, “With greater pride and pride, the Islamic Resistance brings to life the martyr, the Mujahid, Commander Wissam Hassan Tawil (Hajj Jawad) from the town of Khirbet Selm in southern Lebanon, who rose as a martyr on the road to Jerusalem.”
The party published via Telegram a group of photos in which Tawil appears on several occasions, some of them with the former commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in 2020, as well as with the prominent military commander of Hezbollah, Imad Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in 2008.
Following Tawil’s assassination, the party carried out a series of operations against Israeli military sites and soldiers’ concentrations across the border, while the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation announced that two Israelis, including a soldier, were injured as a result of rockets fired from southern Lebanon on Monday.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that today, Israeli drones targeted the car of Hezbollah military commander Wissam Tawil in the town of Khirbet Selm in southern Lebanon, killing him and wounding another person who was with him.
His targeting came after a bombing operation carried out by Hezbollah on Saturday against the Israeli Meron air control base, which caused damage to the base, according to the Israeli army’s admission. The party described it as part of an initial response to the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), in an air strike in the suburb. South of Beirut.
It is noteworthy that on November 22, Israel assassinated 5 leaders from the Radwan unit in Hezbollah forces.
On the other hand, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on the X platform that Hezbollah “misjudged us in 2006, and is making a big mistake in our judgment even now,” referring to the previous war between the two sides.
Meanwhile, the Israeli media said that widespread warnings were raised in the north after the assassination of a prominent Hezbollah leader, in anticipation of an expected response.
For its part, Hezbollah announced the targeting of Israeli military sites, including Ruwaisat Al-Alam and Hadab Al-Bustan, confirming that direct casualties had been achieved.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that two missiles were fired towards the Ruwaisat al-Alam site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms.
Hezbollah also announced that it had targeted gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of Shtoula and Jal al-Alam, and said that they were killed and wounded.
On the other hand, Israeli warplanes carried out a series of raids on the town of Aita al-Shaab in the central sector of the border in southern Lebanon, and Israeli artillery bombed the surroundings of the towns of Kafar Shuba, Khiam, and Al-Adisa, in the eastern sector.
