Targeted attack

Israel: Important Hezbollah commander killed

According to the Israeli army, an important commander of the pro-Iranian Shiite militia Hezbollah was killed in a targeted attack on Monday. He was a commander of the Radwan force, an elite Hezbollah unit in the south of Lebanon. 

The commander and two other Hezbollah fighters under his command were killed in an airstrike in Sultaniya. Hezbollah confirmed the death of the commander on Monday, but gave no further details.

"Planning and carrying out terrorist attacks"
His rank was comparable to that of a brigade commander, according to the army statement. "In his role, he was responsible for the planning and execution of terror attacks against Israeli civilians in northern Israel." Since the beginning of the war, he had commanded several attacks on Israeli territory.

Since the beginning of the Gaza war following the Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7, there have been repeated confrontations between Israel's army and militant groups such as Hezbollah in the Israeli-Lebanese border region. It is the most serious escalation since the second Lebanon war in 2006, with casualties on both sides.