Why Did Hezbollah Name Its Missiles Fadi?
CrossFireArabia- September 23, 2024
After the Hezbollah missiles that targeted Israel’s Ramat David base and airport with Fadi I and Fadi II missiles, social media activists circulated a picture of Yoav Galant with the question: Who is Fadi?
Returning to the picture, it turned out it was Israel’s Defense Minister, who is being constantly threatened with dismissal, visited the Ramat David Base on 18 September and which Hezbollah bombed.
Galant announced then that the “the center of gravity is moving north,” and said: “We are shifting forces, resources, and energy to the north.”
Since Hezbollah launched its missiles, the most frequently asked question has been: Who is Fadi, the name bearer of those missiles?
The truth is that these missiles, despite many views on the social media, were named after Fadi Hassan Al Tawil, who was born on 10 May, 1969 in West Beirut, and originally belonged to the southern town of Khirbet Silm.
Al Tawil joined the ranks of the resistance in 1982, and participated in several resistance missions, from surveillance, reconnaissance, and ambushes, deep inside the “occupied strip”.
He was martyred during the series of the “Badr Al-Kubra” military operations carried out by the Islamic Resistance against the military positions of the Israeli occupation forces and the Antoine Lahad Army (South Lebanon Army that cooperated with the Israeli occupation to control southern Lebanon) on 30 May, 1987.
His body remained on the battlefield for eight days before being removed and buried. He is the brother of the Hezbollah commander Wissam Al-Tawil, who was killed in southern Lebanon during Hezbollah’s support for the resistance in Gaza in the current “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle.
