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/ The Israeli army said on Thursday that it killed the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Ali al-Debs, and two of his other aides in a raid in Lebanon.
“Yesterday evening, the commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan Forces, Ali Muhammad al-Debs, his deputy Ibrahim Issa and another terrorist were killed,” the army said in a statement.
The Israeli army statement explained that Al-Debs was killed in “a precise air strike carried out by an army aircraft on a military facility belonging to Hezbollah in Nabatieh.”
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee announced on his X account that the army “eliminated a central commander in the Radwan Force, along with his deputy and another element inside Lebanon.”
A Lebanese security source told AFP that 7 civilians, in addition to 3 Hezbollah members, including a military official, were killed in an Israeli raid in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.
An Israeli drone targeted, according to the official National News Agency, with a “guided missile” on Wednesday night a three-story building in the city of Nabatieh, which is relatively far from the border with Israel and has so far remained immune to the escalation between the Hebrew state and Hezbollah since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip.
The security source said that seven civilians from one family were killed in the raid, which also killed three Hezbollah members who were present on the lower floor of the building.
For its part, Hezbollah announced on Thursday the killing of three of its members, including Al-Debs.
The party said in a statement, “The Islamic Resistance announces the martyrdom of the Mujahid Ali Muhammad al-Dabs “Haidar”, born in 1976 from the town of Blat and a resident of the town of Zebdine in southern Lebanon, who was martyred on the road to Jerusalem.”
According to the agency, the Israeli strike in Nabatieh caused “severe damage to the three-story building”, on one of whose floors the Barjawi family lives.
Southern Lebanon and northern Israel witnessed a bloody escalation on Wednesday, as Israel launched a series of air strikes targeting several towns, some of which are located 25 kilometers from the border.
The strikes were followed by the Israeli army’s announcement that a female soldier had been killed in the north of the Jewish state by a rocket fired from the Lebanese side, for which no party has claimed responsibility. An Israeli ambulance service reported that seven people were injured.
In Lebanon, Israeli strikes on Wednesday, including those targeting Nabatieh, killed a total of 15 people, including 10 civilians and five from Hezbollah, according to official media, Hezbollah and a security source.
This death toll is the highest in a single day since Hezbollah and Israel began exchanging cross-border fire on October 8, amid the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas.