Lebanon: Hezbollah announces the death of a senior commander in a suspected attack by Israel

Lina Portman4 weeks ago

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A senior military commander of the pro-Iran Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah has been killed in an alleged Israeli attack in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah itself announced this in a note, explaining that it is Sami Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb.

“It is with great pride and great honor that the Islamic Resistance announces the martyrdom of Commander Taleb Sami Abdallah,” said Hajj Abu Taleb, born in 1969 in the town of Adchit, in southern Lebanon, martyr on the road to Jerusalem (expression used by Hezbollah to indicate the responsibility of Israeli forces),” the movement declared.

According to a Lebanese military source cited by the newspaper “L'Orient le Jour”, the air attack took place in the town of Jouaiyya, about 15 kilometers from the Israeli border, and caused the death of three people besides the commander. . The commander “is the most important member of Hezbollah killed so far since the start of the war,” said the same source, without specifying the identity of the fighter.