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Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-806019
Hizbullah Leader Nasrallah Realizes the IDF Can Kill Him
(Jerusalem Post) Shaked Sadeh - For the past 20 years, Hizbullah Brig.-Gen. Sami Taleb Abdullah, who was eliminated in a targeted killing on Wednesday, led rocket fire toward Kiryat Shmona, the Galilee panhandle, and the Golan Heights. He is the highest-ranking Hizbullah commander to be killed so far in the war. "The operation indicates that Hizbullah's field security is not airtight and that the organization's intelligence system has been penetrated to such an extent that we were able to eliminate such an important sector commander," said Prof. Amatzia Baram, professor emeritus of Middle East history at the University of Haifa. Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan "Nasrallah realizes that the IDF has the ability to kill him whenever it wants, and I believe this worries him quite a bit. Contrary to popular belief, Nasrallah is not a suicidal Shiite yearning for death. He understands that he would be next in line to die if a full-scale war breaks out. This poses a significant danger for him. Additionally...it leads to great concern among the commanders, who know they could be next."