Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman for foreign media, Mark Regeff, he was asked during an MSNBC interview about Israel’s assassination of Hamas deputy commander Saleh al-Aruri in Lebanon.

At a loss for words in his response, Regev emphasized that the strike only targeted Hamas officials in an apparent attempt to persuade Hezbollah to scale back its retaliation.

“Obviously in Lebanon, there are many Hezbollah targets, but whoever did this strike was very surgical and went for a Hamas target because Israel is at war… Whoever did this has a problem with Hamas,” he said. the Regev.

“Whoever did this, it is not an attack on the Lebanese state. It is not an attack on the terrorist organization Hezbollah. Whoever did this, it’s an attack on Hamas, that’s very clear,” he added.