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Smoke billows over Beirut’s southern suburbs, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, September 28, 2024. (Reuters)
Hezbollah has not confirmed or denied Israel’s announcement about the commanders
The Israeli army has announced that it killed the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon in an air strike, along with his deputy and several other leaders of the Iran-backed outfit.
Israeli fighter jets killed “Muhammad Ali Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon, and his deputy,” the military said in a statement on Telegram, adding that “other Hezbollah commanders and terrorists were eliminated”.
Muhammad Ali Ismail, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Missile Unit in southern Lebanon, and his deputy, Hussein Ahmad Ismail, were eliminated in a precise IAF strike.Ali Ismail was responsible for directing numerous terrorist attacks against the State of Israel, including the… pic.twitter.com/Esoyg4pLM7
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 28, 2024
The statement said Ismail was “responsible for many acts of terrorism…including rocket launches towards the territory of the State of Israel and the launch of a surface-to-surface missile towards the centre of the country last Wednesday”. The Israeli military said it also killed Ibrahim Muhammad Kabisi and “other senior officials in Hezbollah’s missile and rocket array”. Hezbollah has not confirmed or denied Israel’s announcement about the commanders.
Hezbollah Chief and Daughter Killed?
This report came as Israeli media said Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in the targeted IDF strikes on the Iranian-backed outfit’s central headquarters in Beirut on Friday. “Hard to believe he [Nasrallah] got out of it alive,” an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post, adding that the Hezbollah chief had been one of the targets of the IDF airstrikes.
Reports also emerged about the killing of Nasrallah’s daughter Zainab Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut. Israeli news channel Channel 12 reported her death, but there has been no official confirmation from Hezbollah or Lebanese authorities.
The Israeli military said that it was currently conducting strikes on strategic terrorist targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the area of Beirut. “Among the targets struck are weapons production facilities, buildings used to store advanced weapons and key command centers of the terrorist organization,” it said in a post on X.
