Lebanon: Israeli Army Killed Hezbollah Executive in Air Attack · Global Voices

He announced he killed a major executive in the city of Bazuriye in Lebanon during an air raid. Today (29.03.2024) Ali Abdel Hasan Naim’s death, deputy commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile unit, was announced. The announcement was made by the Israeli army who as revealed killed the commander within the Bazuriye of . “A little earlier today an aircraft of Israeli Air Force (…) took out Ali Abdel Hasan Naim, deputy commander of the Hezbollah rocket and missile unit in the Bazuriye region,” the Israeli army noted in a statement. This Hezbollah executive was “responsible for conducting and planning attacks on Israeli civilians,” the same source added. A little earlier Lebanese military source had stated that “an important executive” of the Lebanese Shia movement of Hezbollah was killed in a blow against his car in southern Lebanon, blaming Israel. Since the beginning of the war between Hamas and Israel on 7 October in the Gaza Strip Hezbollah and other Palestinian allied organizations have been moving forward to almost daily fire exchanges with Israeli forces along the southern Lebanon border. Israel responds by bombarding deeper and deeper into Lebanese territory and launching attacks on Hezbollah and Hamas officials. Lebanon’s ANI news agency broadcast that a “targeted raid by enemy drone against vehicle” took place in Bazuriye, near the coastal city of Tyre, resulting in a man being killed. Speaking under the condition of maintaining the anonymity of Lebanon’s military source he clarified that the victim was “a major executive of Hezbollah”. Cross-border conflicts have intensified this week, causing concerns about a more general conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. The White House appreciated yesterday Thursday that returning to calm at the Israel-Lebanon border should be a “high priority”. On Wednesday eleven civilians, 10 rescuers, were killed in Lebanon in a blow attributed to Israel, while a civilian died in the Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona in Hezbollah bombings. At least 347 people have been killed in Lebanon – the majority of Hezbollah militants and almost 68 civilians – in fire exchanges after the outbreak of the Gaza war, according to the AFP report. At the same time thousands of people in southern Lebanon have been forced to leave their homes. Ten soldiers and eight civilians have been killed in northern Israel, according to the army.