“The Israeli army announced the destruction in southern Lebanon of the commander of the Hezbollah rocket unit, Muhammad Ismail, his deputy Hussein Ismail and several other commanders during the latest attack on Beirut.”, — write: www.ukrinform.ua
According to the IDF, the commander of Hezbollah’s missile forces was responsible for numerous attacks on Israel during the war, including Wednesday’s ballistic missile attack on Tel Aviv.
At the same time, the leader of “Hezbollah” Hassan Nasrallah was still not available after the Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, the agency reported. Reuters a source close to the Lebanese armed group. However, according to the source, Nasrallah is alive. And the Iranian news agency Tasnim reported that he is safe. A senior Iranian security official told Reuters that Tehran was checking his status.
Hours after the attack, Hezbollah still had no word on his fate.
IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, for his part said the military was still studying the results of the strike on Hezbollah’s headquarters and would not rule on whether Nasrallah had been killed.
“We will let you know as soon as we know. Our shot was very accurate,” he said.
Read also: Israelwill reach out to anyone in the Middle East – Netanyahu at the UN As reported by Ukrinform, the Israeli Air Force on Friday evening hit the main headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut. According to unconfirmed Israeli media reports, the target of the strike was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
In turn, the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin said that Israel did not warn the United States in advance that it would strike Beirut. He also declined to give any assessment of the strike’s possible elimination of Nasrallah, saying he would soon speak again with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant for an update.
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