In southern Lebanon, a senior Hezbollah commander, Wissam al-Tawil, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, they reported. Reuters and AFP with reference to sources. In a group confirmed his death.
Wissam al-Tawil was the deputy head of one of the units of the Radwan forces. According to AFP sources, he “played a leading role in managing Hezbollah’s operations in the south.”
Reuters interlocutors said that the commander and another militant of the Lebanese group were killed when their car was hit during a drone attack in the village of Majdal Selm.
The killing of al-Tawil heightens fears that the war in the Gaza Strip could spread throughout the Middle East, agency sources said.
On October 7, 2023, terrorists from the Palestinian Hamas movement attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking another 240 hostage. The Israel Defense Forces responded to the attack by launching airstrikes into the Gaza Strip and then entered Palestinian territory in a ground operation.
Hezbollah came out in support of Hamas and began striking Israel. The Israeli military reported retaliatory strikes on the southern territories of Lebanon.
According to Reuters, since the beginning of the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, more than 130 Hezbollah militants have been killed as a result of Israeli bombing in southern Lebanon, and another 19 were killed in Syria. The leader of the Lebanese movement, Hassan Nasrallah, warned Israel against unleashing a full-scale war with Lebanon.
2024-01-08 13:39:00
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