Top Hezbollah official at funeral of army chief Tabatabai: ‘The Zionists should be worried’

By Noam Lehmann 24 November 2025, 3:50 pm

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Hezbollah members raise the terror group's flags and chant slogans as they attend the funeral procession of Hezbollah's military chief of staff, Haytham Tabatabai, and two other Hezbollah members who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, November 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah executive council head Sheikh Ali Daamoush says Israel should be wary of Hezbollah’s response to the IDF’s assassination of Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai yesterday.

Speaking at Tabatabai’s funeral in Beirut, Daamoush says “the Zionists should be worried, because they’ve committed a grave crime against the resistance and against Lebanon.”

Regarding a diplomatic resolution to the tensions, Daamoush says: “We won’t concern ourselves with any proposals as long as the enemy doesn’t commit to the ceasefire agreement” that Israel and Hezbollah reached in November 2024. Israel has accused Hezbollah of breaching the accord and says its strikes against the terror group are meant to prevent it from rearming.

Alluding to US and other countries’ pressure on Beirut to disarm Hezbollah as outlined in the ceasefire agreement, Daamoush adds: “It’s the state’s duty to defend its citizens and its sovereignty. The government needs to draw up plans for that and reject foreign diktats and pressure.”