IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi vows that Israel will return displaced northern residents to their homes, while lauding the killing in Beirut on Friday of top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil and other terror leaders.
In a video statement recorded at Israeli Air Force’s Tel Hanof base in central Israel, standing in front of an F-15 fighter jet, Halevi says Aquil’s assassination would “shake up” the group, and notes that the terror leader and his commanders had “planned for years to occupy the Galilee, they are responsible for the murder of many Israelis, including soldiers, over the years.”
Echoing comments by President Isaac Herzog earlier today, Herzog says the terror leaders were “planning how to carry out the next attack — this may be what they were dealing with in that meeting on Friday afternoon — how to infiltrate the State of Israel, murder civilians, kidnap IDF soldiers.”
He says that the strike sends a “clear message” to Hezbollah that Israel has the capabilities to “reach anyone who threatens the citizens of the State of Israel.”
“The price that Hezbollah is paying has increased, our attacks will increase,” he vows, noting that IDF fighter jets targeted hundreds of terror sites in Lebanon in the past few days.
“We will safely return the residents to their homes, and if Hezbollah has not understood this yet, it will get another blow and another blow – until the organization understands,” he vows.
The IDF chief also warns that Israel has “many more capabilities that we have not yet activated” and says the country is “at a very high level of readiness both in attack and defense.”
He also mentions efforts to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, which he calls “an urgent task, even when we are fighting in the north.”
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