Sunday, September 22, 2024
Hezbollah leaders killed in Friday strike were meeting on Oct. 7-style Galilee invasion plans
Today, 2:24 pm
A Hezbollah source tells the Al-Monitor news site that the senior Hezbollah leaders killed in an IDF strike on Friday were meeting to discuss plans to invade Israel in an October 7-style attack in response to the pager explosions.
President Isaac Herzog said much the same in a British TV interview earlier today.
The members of the elite Radwan Force were studying “plans for a ground invasion at the heart of the occupied territories,” the source tells Al-Monitor. (Hezbollah seeks to destroy Israel and sees all of its sovereign territory as “occupied.”)
Thousands of Hezbollah pagers and other communications devices blew up last week in an attack blamed on Israel. Israel has not commented.
The Israeli airstrike killed two of Hezbollah’s top leaders — Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wahbi — and at least 14 others, many of them senior Radwan Force commanders, as they met in the basement of a Beirut residential building.
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hezbollah-leaders-killed-in-strike-were-meeting-on-oct-7-style-galilee-invasion-plans/
