“If we manage to kill Nasrallah in the next war, I would see that as a decisive victory,” Major General Yaakov Barak told reporters on Wednesday.
The Israeli general said that “the next war will not be a war of several days, but it won’t last several months either.”
Nasrallah's predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi, was assassinated by the Israeli troops in February 1992.
Lebanon-based Hezbollah remains the most serious military threat facing Israel, with an estimated arsenal of between 100,000 to 120,000 short- and medium-range missiles and rockets, as well as several hundred long-range missiles aimed at the Jewish State.
Israel fought a brutal war against the group in 2006 that left well over a thousand people dead, mainly in Lebanon.
Nasrallah has repeatedly warned Israel against going for another act of aggression against Lebanon.
Tensions have been rising between Israel and Lebanon in recent weeks over Tel Aviv’s building of a border wall and its threats against Lebanon’s offshore oil and gas exploration projects in disputed Mediterranean waters.
Hezbollah, Lebanese resistance organization, has vowed to defend the rights of its homeland in oil and gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean region against any new Israeli aggression.
