‘We Will Disarm Hezbollah’: Israeli War Chief Threatens New War In Lebanon – The Cradle

November 27, 2025 TheMcgwire

‘We Will Disarm Hezbollah’: Israeli War Chief Threatens New War In Lebanon

The new threat comes just days after Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah’s top military official in Beirut

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened on 26 November that Tel Aviv will launch a new war against Lebanon if Hezbollah does not surrender its weapons by the end of 2025.

“We will not allow any threats against the inhabitants of the north, and maximum enforcement will continue and even intensify,” the minister said while addressing Israel’s Knesset.

“As we proved a few days ago with the elimination – there will be no calm in Beirut, nor order and stability in Lebanon, until the security of the State of Israel is guaranteed,” he added, referring to Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah chief of staff Haitham Ali al-Tabtabai in Beirut’s southern suburb days ago.

“If Hezbollah does not give up its weapons by the year’s end, we will work forcefully again in Lebanon,” Katz went on to say. “We will disarm them.”

Katz added that Washington has given Beirut until the end of this year to disarm the Lebanese resistance, but said, “I do not believe that Hezbollah will hand over its weapons voluntarily.”

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

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