Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have reportedly authorized the military to assassinate senior Iranian and Hezbollah officials without seeking prior political approval.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have issued new directives instructing the military to immediately target high-ranking officials from Iran and Hezbollah, according to regional media monitoring of Israeli broadcasts.
Al Jazeera, a Qatari state-owned network whose editorial stance frequently aligns with and amplifies the perspectives of the "Axis of Resistance," cited Israeli Channel 12 in reporting that the Israeli military has been instructed to "immediately eliminate senior officials" of both Iran and Hezbollah. The same development was concurrently reported by Wahed Iraq, an Iraqi news channel.Furthermore, the new standing orders reportedly bypass traditional bureaucratic hurdles for targeted strikes. According to a subsequent alert from Al Jazeera referencing the same Israeli television broadcast, the new military instructions dictate the killing of these senior figures "without seeking prior political approval."
These rapid-strike authorizations follow the unprecedented regional war that erupted earlier this month. The ongoing multi-front conflict, sparked by the joint US-Israeli military campaign dubbed "Operation Epic Wrath," recently resulted in the targeted assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders, which triggered widespread retaliatory missile and drone strikes across the Middle East.
The Arabic source channels are directly citing and amplifying a domestic report from Israeli Channel 12. The prompt contained a contradictory instruction referencing Hebrew translation fidelity, but explicitly commanded the digest to be written in English; the English instruction was followed while maintaining the direct translation of the Arabic terms (e.g., 'eliminate', 'killing').