Hezbollah set to avenge elimination of commander of Radwan unit PHOTO

The Qatari publication Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed has published a separate piece on the identity of liquidated Wissam al-Tawil, the commander of the Radwan special forces unit of the Shiite group Hezbollah.

The publication notes that Hezbollah published a report on his death, as well as a series of photos with the group's leaders - Hassan Nasrallah, Imad Mughniyeh, Mustafa Badr al-Din, and Qassem Soleimani (the eliminated head of the IRGC's Quds Force). Of these, only Sheikh Nasrallah is still alive.

Tawil's brother, Fadi Hassan Tawil, was also a member of Hezbollah and participated in several "jihadist special operations" until he became a martyr with a group of other mujahideen in 1987.

The publication's source said that the entire Tawil family is linked to Hezbollah. One member of the family in particular was eliminated in October by an Israeli strike.

Wissam Tawil played an important role in the group's activities in Syria and Iraq, being one of the leading commanders of the special unit "Radwan", which was designed to attack Israel in a full-scale war, and was a close associate of Qassem Soleimani.

“Wissam Tawil is one of the most important commanders killed by the Israeli occupation since the start of the battle in southern Lebanon on October 8, following the Palestinian resistance’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in response to the crimes and violations of the Israeli occupation,” the Qatari publication writes, hinting that this could provoke the Shiite group to worsen the escalation.

"Today's elimination of Tawil, and previously Saleh al-Arouri, in Hezbollah's protected stronghold in southern Beirut, raises a question mark over the new stage the confrontation between Hezbollah and the Israeli occupation may reach, and whether the elimination of the leaders would precipitate such a development," it adds.

According to the publication, Hezbollah has yet to get even with Israel for the elimination of al-Arouri, "which suggests that the coming hours and days will see the beginning of a dangerous development on the southern front."

At the same time, the publication notes that Hezbollah does not yet want to expand the confrontation and does not want war, but is ready to respond in case of Israeli aggression.

To recap, on January 8, Wissam al-Tawil, a senior field commander of Hezbollah's Radwan unit, the Lebanese counterpart of Hamas' Nukhba, was eliminated in an attack in the village of Kherbet Selm.