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This is the highest military member of the Lebanese terrorist movement killed since clashes resumed between Hezbollah and Israel on the Lebanese border.
Published on August 1, 2024 4:51 p.m
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The village of Khiam in southern Lebanon after an Israeli bombardment, January 8, 2024. (RABIH DAHER / AFP)
A senior military official of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, Commander Wissam Hassan Tawil, was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Monday, January 8, the Lebanese terrorist movement said. He is the highest-ranking Hezbollah military official killed since clashes resumed between the Hamas-aligned terrorist organization and Israel.
The group posted several photos of Wissam Hassan Tawil online, including one next to Qassem Soleimani, the former architect of Iranian military operations in the Middle East who was killed in an American strike in Iraq in January 2020. He also appears with Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, and Imad Moghnieh, a senior military official who was killed in Damascus in 2008.
About sixty rockets were fired at Israel
This Israeli raid comes after the deaths of Hamas number two, Saleh al-Arouri, and six other officials and leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement in an attack attributed to Israel on January 2nd. The attack targeted an office of the movement in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold.
The Lebanese movement said it fired 62 rockets at a military base in northern Israel in retaliation on Saturday. Hezbollah says it is acting to support Hamas, which seized power in Gaza in 2007, where the war is now in its fourth month.
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