Suspected Israeli strike in Lebanon kills senior Hezbollah commander

[CharlieH]

 

The Lebanese group Hezbollah says one of its commanders has been killed in a strike in southern Lebanon believed to have been carried out by Israel.

Wissam Tawil was reportedly a member of the group's elite Radwan Force, and one of the most prominent Hezbollah figures to be killed in the current violence.

Israel's military did not comment, but it did say it had hit Hezbollah targets in response to cross-border attacks.

The clashes have raised fears of a wider regional conflict.

Hezbollah is an Iran-backed group that wields considerable military and political power in Lebanon. It is designated as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the UK and other Western powers.

Its fighters have exchanged fire with Israeli forces almost every day along the border since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip on 7 October.

 

Israel's prime minister told soldiers stationed on the border with Lebanon on Monday that he was determined to "do everything necessary to restore security to the north".

 

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Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported that two people - whom it did not name - were killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a car in the al-Dabsha area of Khirbet Selim at around 10:15 (08:15 GMT) on Monday.

The strike caused the vehicle to veer off the road and catch fire, it added.

Pictures from the scene showed the burned-out wreck of a car on a roadside.

Lebanese security sources said one of those killed in the strike was Wissam Tawil and that the other was also a Hezbollah fighter.

Three sources told Reuters news agency that Tawil was the deputy head of a unit within Hezbollah's Radwan Force, whose well-trained members are considered the group's special forces.

 

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[Morch]

Another one bites the dust...

 

Hezbollah’s drone chief in southern Lebanon killed in reported Israeli strike

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hezbollahs-drone-chief-in-southern-lebanon-killed-in-reported-israeli-strike/

[Nick Carter icp]

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps says four military advisers have been killed in a strike on Damascus, Syria, according to state-run media in Iran. Meanwhile, US personnel suffered minor injuries in an attack on Iraq's Ain al Asad air base.

Saturday 20 January 2024 18:58, UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Captain Monday]

Good news. Hezbollah “commander” (it is a proxy war)

Then, maybe drop a Hellfire on Nasrullah next

One of the models that deploys giant cutting blades with no 

explosive warhead so nearby women children and other innocents are not criminally slaughtered at the same time. 

[Captain Monday]

R9X “ninja” Hellfire. 

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/08/03/ayman-al-zawahiri-s-death-what-is-the-hellfire-r9x-missile-that-the-americans-purportedly-used_5992310_4.html