Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
An Israeli drone strike that targeted the eastern Lebanese town of Majdal Anjar, close to the border with Syria, on May 17 killed a top commander of the Islamic Group, the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, who worked alongside the Palestinian Hamas Movement.
The IDF said in a statement the strike targeted and killed Sharhabil Sayed who “led and advanced numerous terror attacks from Lebanese territory against Israel in [Lebanon’s] eastern region in the recent period… in cooperation with the Lebanon branch of the Hamas terrorist organization.”
The strike was aimed at “causing a blow to the organization’s abilities to advance and carry out terror operations that it had planned in the recent period and in the near future against the State of Israel on the northern border,” according to the IDF.
Hamas in an official statement claimed Sayed as a commander in the ranks of its military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Two security sources told Reuters that the Israeli drone strike on Majdal Anjar also killed another Palestinian member of Hamas.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades and the military wing of the Islamic Group, the Fajr Forces, have been both launching attacks from Lebanon against Israel in cooperation with Hezbollah since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip last October.
Hours before the assassination of Sayed, Hezbollah attacked an Israeli military base with suicide drones and launched dozens of rockets at the Upper Galilee and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
Nevertheless, the group has not yet responded to the Israeli drone strike on Majdal Anjar. A serious response is to be expected.
Hezbollah was the first to launch attacks against Israel from Lebanon after the outbreak of the war in Gaza. So far, Israel has limited its response to air and artillery strikes.
The confrontation has so far resulted in ten civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least 14 IDF soldiers and reservists. On the Lebanese side, more than 400 people have been killed, including 284 fighters of Hezbollah, 13 members of Hamas and at least 70 civilians.
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i’m waiting for hezbollah to take out a general or two of the occupying squatter army! may it happen instantly!,
yes, you created that muslim brotherhood, now hide your crime.