Two days ago, the Israeli army already killed a Hezbollah official. This Sunday, she claims to have “eliminated” another in a raid on southern Lebanon. For almost six months, daily violence has pitted the Israeli army against Hezbollah on the Israeli-Lebanese border, which claims to support the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in its war against Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Pro-Iranian Hezbollah, which has an arsenal of rockets and precision missiles, targets Israeli military positions and localities near the border, and Israel responds with bombings on Lebanese territory, mainly in the south, leading including targeted attacks against Hezbollah and Hamas officials.
An Israeli drone
“An Air Force plane struck a vehicle in the Kounin region of Lebanon, in which Ismail al-Zein was traveling,” the Israeli army said in a statement on Sunday. The army presented him as the “commander of a unit (…) responsible for dozens of attacks” against Israel.
In Beirut, a Lebanese military source said that “an Israeli drone targeted a car in the village of Kounine, killing a person who was on board.” She did not provide further details. On Friday, the Israeli army announced that it had killed “Ali Abdel Hassan Naïm, the deputy commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile unit,” in a strike in Bazouriyé in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah confirmed his death.