The Israeli military said Monday it had killed a top Hezbollah commander it accused of overseeing rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.
Abu Ali Rida, the Hezbollah commander of southern Lebanon’s Baraachit area, was “eliminated” in an airstrike, the army said, without specifying when he was killed.
Rida “was responsible for planning and executing rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on IDF (military forces) forces and oversaw the terrorist activities of Hezbollah operatives in the area,” the military said in a statement.
Israel has continued to attack Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since the war between the two sides broke out in late September.
In recent weeks, Israel has killed several militant commanders and top leaders of the movement, including former chief Hassan Nasrallah.
The war began after nearly a year of cross-border skirmishes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, with the Lebanese group firing rockets into northern Israel almost daily in support of its Gaza ally, Hamas.
Israel is waging its deadliest war in Gaza against Hamas after the Palestinian militant group launched an attack on southern Israel on October 7 last year.
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