According to Lebanese information, the Israeli army has killed the top commander of the Shia Hezbollah militia since the start of the Gaza war. He died in an attack in the town of Jwaya on Tuesday evening.
The victim is Sami Abdallah, called Abu Taleb. Abdallah, who was born in southern Lebanon in 1969, died “a martyr on the way to Jerusalem,” Hezbollah wrote in its usual wording for members killed in the fighting. The pro-Iranian Shiite militia later said a second fighter, Mohammad Hussein Sabra, was killed in the same Israeli attack.
Wissam Hassan Tawil, who was killed in an Israeli attack in January, was previously believed to be the highest-ranking Hezbollah member killed since the start of the Gaza war. Tawil was involved, among other things, in the capture of Israeli soldiers who caused the last war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.
Israel provided only vague information
The Israeli army initially did not provide specific information about the attack on Tuesday evening. However, it stated that it had hit several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah previously carried out fifty rocket attacks on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Since the start of the war between Israel and the radical Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, following the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel, there have been almost daily firefights between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters. The intensity of the fighting had increased in recent days.
Losses on both sides
At least 467 people have been killed in Lebanon since October, including at least 90 civilians and 304 Hezbollah fighters, according to a count by the AFP news agency. According to Israeli sources, at least 15 soldiers and 11 civilians were killed on the Israeli side of the border. Tens of thousands of people on the Israeli side were forced to leave their homes.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country was ready for a “very intensive operation” on its northern border with Lebanon. “Somehow we will restore security there,” Netanyahu said.
Source: Krone
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