- An Israeli strike killed senior Hezbollah commander Mohammad Naameh Nasser, probably the most senior official from the Iran-backed group killed since Taleb Sami Abdullah, who died in an airstrike on June 11.
- Hezbollah mentioned it launched rockets with heavy warheads focusing on Israeli navy bases in response to the killing of Nasser.
- As clashes have escalated between Israel and Hezbollah since Hamas’ October 7 assault, world diplomatic efforts to keep away from an all-out warfare between the 2 have additionally intensified.
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Wednesday killed a senior Hezbollah commander as tensions between the 2 sides proceed to boil, a Hezbollah official instructed The Related Press.
The strike close to the southern coastal metropolis of Tyre happened as world diplomatic efforts have intensified in latest weeks to stop escalating clashes between Hezbollah and the Israeli navy from spiraling into an all-out warfare that would presumably result in a direct confrontation between Israel and Iran.
A Hezbollah assertion recognized the killed commander as Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who glided by the title “Abu Naameh,” his nom de guerre. A Hezbollah official talking anonymously consistent with rules, mentioned he was head of the group’s Aziz Unit, one among three regional divisions in southern Lebanon.
Nasser is probably the most senior official from the Iran-backed group killed since Taleb Sami Abdullah, who was killed in an airstrike June 11. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a speech honoring Abdullah mentioned he performed a pivotal position on the entrance line since clashes started on Oct. 8 main the Nasr Unit.
Hezbollah mentioned in response to the killing of Nasser, it launched Falaq rockets with heavy warheads focusing on the headquarters of the Israeli navy’s 769th Brigade in Kiryat Shmona, in addition to 100 salvos of Katyusha rockets focusing on the headquarters of Israel’s 210th division and the Kilaa air base within the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
The group additionally shared footage of Nasser collaborating in what they mentioned was an operation at an Israeli navy outpost in southern Lebanon in 1999 again when it was beneath occupation.
Hezbollah commander Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike within the southern costal city of Tyre, Lebanon, on July 3, 2024, is seen on this portrait. (Hezbollah Media Relations Workplace through AP)
In a video circulated by native media, residents rushed towards a charred automobile with a big plume of smoke. Civil Protection mentioned its first responders transported an unnamed wounded individual to a hospital.
The Israeli military acknowledged the assault, saying that Nasser alongside Abdullah are “two of probably the most vital Hezbollah” militants in southern Lebanon. It mentioned Nasser led assaults from southwestern Lebanon.
Hezbollah launched rockets on northern Israel a day after a Hamas shock assault on southern Israel in October, resulting in restricted clashes alongside the tense border. The assaults have since step by step escalated, with Hezbollah introducing new weapons of their assaults and Israel placing deeper into Lebanon.
The group maintains that it’ll cease its assaults as soon as there’s a cease-fire within the Gaza Strip. Till then, it says it is going to proceed with its assaults to pile stress on Israel and the worldwide neighborhood. Israeli officers have threatened to launch a bigger navy operation ought to Hezbollah not cease its assaults.
Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Kassem instructed The Related Press in an interview Monday that Israel can’t anticipate the group’s assaults to stay restricted ought to it launch a navy operation inside Lebanon, even when it goals to maintain the battle beneath the edge of all-out warfare. Allies, together with hundreds of Iran-backed militiamen in Iraq, have supplied to affix Hezbollah on the entrance traces.
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Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since October have killed over 450 individuals, most of them Hezbollah fighters, however the lifeless additionally embrace greater than 80 civilians and non-combatants. On the Israeli aspect, 16 troopers and 11 civilians have been killed because the warfare in Gaza started. Tens of hundreds of individuals on each side of the tense frontier have been displaced within the monthslong warfare.
Senior adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, Amos Hochstein, who has been shuttling between Lebanon and Israel, is ready to fulfill with French President Emmanuel Macron’s Lebanon envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris on Wednesday as a part of his ongoing diplomatic efforts to finish the battle.
French officers had invited Hochstein to the French capital to debate the most recent developments of their ongoing diplomatic scrambles, in keeping with administration officers who spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to remark publicly.
