Israel assassinates Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil with drone strike on his car in Lebanon

A SENIOR Hezbollah commander was killed in an Israeli drone strike on his car in southern Lebanon.

Security sources identified him as Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy head of a unit within the Radwan force of the Iran-backed terror group.

Hezbollah commander Jawad al-Tawil was killed in an Israeli strike

The moment the terror leader’s car erupts into flames after being hit

“This is a very painful strike,” one of the security sources said.

Another said, “things will flare up now.”

Al-Tawil was said to be behind a weekend strike on an Israeli military base.

A Lebanese security official revealed that the eliminated target had “a leading role in directing the operations in southern Lebanon.”

Israeli officials have now confirmed they were behind the strike on al-Tawil.

Israeli bombardment has killed more than 130 Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon since cross-border shelling began in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attacks.

Another 19 have been killed in Syria.

Hezbollah’s secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel in two televised addresses last week not to launch a full-scale war on Lebanon.

“Whoever thinks of war with us – in one word, he will regret it,” Nasrallah said.

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