Hezbollah says has 'right' to respond to 'Israel's' killing of military commander

• Hezbollah vows right to retaliate after 'Israel' kills top military chief in Beirut strike.

Hezbollah's leader on Friday said the group had the right to respond to 'Israel's' assassination of its top military chief in a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs last week.

In a televised speech, Naim Qassem called the killing of Haytham Ali Tabtabai "a blatant aggression and a heinous crime", adding that his group had "the right to respond, and we will determine the timing for that".