Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah continued relentlessly on Monday, six months after the front in South Lebanon was opened by the pro-Iranian party to support Hamas in Gaza.
The Israeli military said that it killed a Hezbollah commander, identified as Ali Ahmed Hussein of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Forces, in an overnight airstrike on the town of Sultaniyeh.
At least two other people were killed in the strike, according to the Israeli military and Lebanese state media.
For its part, Hezbollah announced the killing of one of its fighters, Ali Ahmed Hussein, nicknamed Abbas Jaafar, without saying where or when he died.
The National News Agency reported that the strike caused “huge damage” to nearby buildings and infrastructure and that at least 10 families were affected.
The latest overnight strike on Lebanon came after the Israeli army said on Sunday that it had completed “another phase of… readiness for war” on the Lebanese front.
On Sunday, the Israeli military said that its fighter jets struck a compound it said belonged to Radwan Forces “in the area of Khiam,” several kilometers north of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, according to AFP.
On Monday morning, artillery shelling targeted the Marjayoun Plain, after a volatile calm had prevailed in the eastern sector of the border area. However, the calm was intermittently disrupted until the early morning hours by Israeli reconnaissance flights.
