Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on June 20 that it had killed the operations officer of Hezbollah’s Jouaiyya regional unit.
Abbas Ibrahim Hamza Hamada, also known as Fadl Ibrahim, was killed in a drone strike in the southern Lebanese town of Deir Kifa. According to an IDF statement, Fadl Ibrahim was in charge of operations in the Jouaiyya area, a town close to Deir Kifa.
Fadi Ibrahim was responsible for planning and carrying out attacks against Israel, while commanding Hezbollah’s ground forces in Jouaiyya, IDF said, adding that he “advanced the entrenchment of the group in southern Lebanon while attempting to improve the organization’s ground combat”
Hezbollah acknowledged the death of Fadl Ibrahim in a statement, but didn’t not describe him as a commander. This casts some doubts on the IDF’s claims.
Simultaneous to the drone strike that killed the operations officer, the IDF said that its fighter jets struck a Hezbollah surface-to-air missile launcher in the southern Lebanese town of Rihan which posed a threat to Israeli aircraft.
The strikes didn’t deter Hezbollah, which later announced a series of attacks against the IDF. In five separate statements, the group said its fighters fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at the Zar’it barracks, struck a gathering of Israeli troops in the al-Samaqa site with suitable weapons, targeted the Ruwaisat al-Alam site with heavy machine guns and shelled with artillery the sites of Zabdin and Naqoura.
The attacks were carried out “in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and to support their brave and honorable resistance,” Hezbollah noted in its statements.
The IDF said that some 25 rockets were launched from Lebanon at the Western Galilee, but didn’t report any damage or casualties.
Hezbollah and its allies began launching near-daily attacks against the IDF in support of the Hamas Movement and other Palestinian armed factions in Gaza after the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Strip last October.
So far, the clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border have resulted in ten civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least 15 IDF soldiers and reservists. On the Lebanese side, more than 500 people have been killed, including 330 fighters of Hezbollah and at least 90 civilians.
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substitute “israeli commander” for hezbollah commander and you have the truth.
.. start pummelling those squatters to oblivion.
notice all the bergs and steins popping up in all the wrong places all over the globe. leading wars and depravity. there is damn good reason why these people must be kept away from politics and money
hezbollah must start culling the illegal occupiers of palestine now tonthe extent that they are forced to flee, leaving every friggin’ item of stolen stuff behind. a serious fatwa on netanyahu and his thieving murdering band of criminals might just give the world a spectacular sight a la spartacus but from tehran!