An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters.
The security sources identified him as Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy head of a unit within the Radwan force. They said he and another Hezbollah fighter were killed when their car was hit in a strike on the Lebanese village of Majdal Selm.
“This is a very painful strike,” one of the security sources said. Another said, “things will flare up now.”
Israeli bombardment has killed more than 130 Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon since cross-border shelling began in the aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Israeli territory on Oct. 7. 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.
Why? 2 state solution would have been a disaster. It would have created a Palestinian Bantustan fully under Israel’s economic and military control. The just solution is one state with equality for all.
Israel will never agree to a one-nation state with 100% Palestinian equality.
A 2-nation state with Palestinians in control of their own water, electric and land resources - without Israel’s incursions on or in Palestinian affairs - is a fair and equitable solution.
Rabin and Carter were close to that with the Oslo Accords, but Rabin’s assassination shut it down.
Israel will never agree to a two state solution either. We already have a de facto one state solution. Israel just needs international pressure to dismantle apartheid and recognise civil rights for Palestinians as Israeli Arabs already enjoy. This could be done gradually starting with peaceful areas of the West Bank and rolling out to the rest of the Occupied Territories.