Beirut:
Hezbollah introduced on Wednesday the dying of a commander, hours after the Israeli military stated it had killed him in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs which Lebanese authorities stated killed six folks.
In an announcement, the Iran-backed group introduced the dying of “commander Ibrahim Mohammed Kobeissi”, who was “martyred on the street to Jerusalem”, the phrase Hezbollah makes use of to check with fighters killed by Israeli strikes.
On Tuesday, Israel’s military stated it “eradicated Ibrahim Mohammed Kobeissi, the commander of the missile and rocket community of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation”.
Lebanon’s well being ministry stated in an announcement that the “Israeli enemy raid on Ghobeiri in Beirut’s southern suburbs killed six folks and injured 15”.
The Israeli navy stated Kobeissi commanded a number of rocket models, together with a precision-guided missile unit, and was hit together with different commanders of Hezbollah’s missiles and rockets drive.
“Kobeissi was an necessary supply of information within the subject of missiles and had shut ties with senior Hezbollah navy leaders,” it stated.
Israeli navy spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari instructed a media briefing that “not less than two” different commanders from Kobeissi’s drive have been additionally “eradicated”.
The raid got here a day after Israel stated it had launched one other “focused strike” on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Hezbollah stated Ali Karake, its third-in-command, was alive and had moved to security after a supply near the group instructed AFP the strike on Monday had focused him.
Hezbollah and its arch-foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fireplace because the Gaza warfare erupted final October.
However violence has spiralled dramatically in current days, elevating fears of all-out warfare.
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