The Israeli army stated on Monday it had killed a prime Hezbollah commander it accused of overseeing rocket and anti-tank missile assaults towards Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.
Abu Ali Rida, the Hezbollah commander of the Baraachit space in southern Lebanon, was “eradicated” in an air strike, the army stated, with out specifying when he was killed.
Rida “was answerable for planning and executing rocket and anti-tank missile assaults on IDF (army) troops and oversaw the terrorist actions of Hezbollah operatives within the space”, the army stated in a press release.
Israel has continued to pound Hezbollah targets in Lebanon because the conflict between the 2 sides broke out in late September.
In latest weeks, Israel has killed a number of of the motion’s militant commanders and prime leaders, together with former chief Hassan Nasrallah.
The conflict started after practically a yr of cross-border skirmishes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, with the Lebanese group firing rockets into northern Israel virtually each day in assist of its ally in Gaza, Hamas.
Israel is preventing its deadliest conflict in Gaza towards Hamas after the Palestinian militant group launched an assault on southern Israel on October 7 final yr.
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