Israel says it killed Hezbollah commander during air strikes across Lebanon

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The Israeli army’s warplanes carried out a series of overnight strikes across southern Lebanon, claiming to have killed a Hezbollah commander.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that Israeli fighter jets bombed the forest areas surrounding the southern Lebanon towns of Zibqine, Chaaitiyeh, and Qlaileh 17 times.

However, the Israeli army claimed to have targeted 30 Hezbollah rocket launching sites and military infrastructure in southern Lebanon in the overnight raids, according to the Times of Israel.

Mohammed Qassem Al-Shaer, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, was killed in a strike on the village of Qaraoun in the western Beqaa district yesterday, according to the Israeli occupation army.

It said Al-Shaer had “advanced numerous terrorist activities against the state of Israel” and his “elimination” would impair the group’s ability to launch attacks against Israel from southern Lebanon.

One person was also killed and another injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted the border town of Mays Al-Jabal, according to the Ministry of Health. The victim was not named.

The state-run National News Agency said a motorcycle was the target of the Israeli strike.

Hezbollah, for its part, claimed rocket attacks against the military sites of Metula and Ruwaisat Al-Qarn in northern Israel and a deployment of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Raheb military post and Zibdin barracks in southern Lebanon.

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