Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement to the media: "A few hours ago, the IDF eliminated Ali Tabatabai, the chief of staff of the terrorist organization Hezbollah.
Tabatabai is a master of murders. His hands are stained with the blood of many Israelis and Americans, and it is not without reason that the US offered a $5 million bounty on his head.
Tabatabai served as a senior commander of the Radwan Force. This is the force that prepared to conquer the Galilee and slaughter many of our citizens.
Recently, he led Hezbollah's renewed efforts to rearm, this of course after the severe blows that Hezbollah suffered in Operation Beeper, the damage to its missile depots and, of course, the assassination of Nasrallah.