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Hezbollah military official killed in Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon

Saturday, 03 August 2024 3:25 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 03 August 2024 3:25 PM ]

Deceased Hezbollah military official Ali Nazih Abd Ali (Photo via social media)

A military official with the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon close to the border with the 1948 occupied territories.

Lebanese military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said an Israeli drone fired three air-to-ground missiles at a car traveling on the main road in the southwestern municipality of Bazouriyeh on Saturday, killing its driver.

The sources added that the body was transferred by ambulance to the Italian Hospital in the city of Tyre.

The victim was later identified as Ali Nazih Abd Ali, a Hezbollah military official from the southwestern Lebanese town of Aitat, who was active in the western sector of the border area.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah said in a brief statement that its fighters launched a salvo of rockets at a building housing Israeli soldiers in Avivim moshav of the Upper Galilee region.

Hezbollah fighters also fired a rocket barrage at a gathering of Israeli troops inside the Metat settlement, hitting it directly.

Iran: Hezbollah will hit ‘broader, deeper’ Israeli targets

Iran has warned that Hezbollah’s response to the recent Israeli assassination of one of its top commanders will be a much “broader and deeper” attack.

Furthermore, the Lebanese group shelled the Israeli al-Assi military outpost with several artillery rounds.

Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging deadly fire since early October last year, shortly after the regime launched a genocidal aggression against the Gaza Strip following a surprise operation by the Palestinian Hamas resistance group.

The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its retaliatory attacks as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed at least 39,550 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in Gaza.

Hezbollah officials have repeatedly said they do not want a war with Israel while stressing that they are prepared in case it occurs.

Two Israeli wars waged against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006 were met with strong resistance from Hezbollah, resulting in the retreat of the regime in both conflicts.

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