The Chief of Staff's statement from the Tel Nof base this evening: "We will return the residents safely, and if Hezbollah has not yet understood this, it will receive another blow and another blow - until it does"

Attached are the full words of the Chief of Staff:

"These days the IDF has raised its readiness to a peak. Last Friday, we hit the chain of command of Hezbollah's elite force - the Radwan unit, and their senior commander, Ibrahim Aqil, was also eliminated.