<\/a>Taleb Sami Abdallah, senior Hezbollah commander led fighters like this man shown during a training exercise in southern Lebanon (illustrative)<\/p><\/div>\n
Thursday, 13 June 2024 | Hezbollah reported overnight Wednesday the death of Taleb Sami Abdallah, the commander of its Al Nasr unit known by his call sign Abu Taleb, in an Israeli-linked strike on a house in southern Lebanon. Abu Taleb is reportedly the most senior Hezbollah commander eliminated by Israel since the outbreak of war.<\/p>\n
Arab media reported an Israeli attack in the southern Lebanese village of Jouaiyya near Tyre. According to reports, four Hezbollah commanders were killed in the attack, including Abu Taleb.<\/p>\n
“The attack in southern Lebanon was aimed at the Hezbollah leaders’ security meeting. This is the harshest blow since the beginning of the war,” reported Saudi channel Al Hadath.<\/em><\/p>\nReuters<\/em> quoted a Lebanese official who said Abu Taleb was the most senior Hezbollah operative killed in eight months of conflict. Lebanese security sources emphasized that Abu Taleb outranked Wissam al-Tawil, a high-ranking commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, who was killed by Israel in January.<\/p>\nAccording to past reports, the Al Nasr unit commanded by Abu Taleb operates in southern Lebanon, from the Israeli border up to the Litani River. Sources who spoke to Reuters<\/em> said he commanded the central sector in the border area. While Hezbollah did not confirm the various reports, they did announce his death on Tuesday.<\/p>\nSky News Arabia<\/em> reported that three missiles hit a house in Jouaiyya, killing four senior Hezbollah commanders. Arab media identified the other commanders as Ali Salim Sufan, Hussein Qassem Hmeid (call sign Sajid) and Mohammed Hussein Sabra.<\/p>\nThe strike on Hezbollah leaders came after another intense day of fighting on the northern front on Shavuot<\/em> [Feast of Weeks] Eve. Hezbollah fired 15 rockets at the Galilee region, with no casualties reported. The Israel Defense Forces [IDF] intercepted some of the rockets, while others fell in unpopulated areas. The rocket barrage also disrupted Shavuot<\/em> celebrations in Kibbutz Neot Mordechai.<\/p>\nHezbollah claimed the rocket fire at the Galilee was in response to previous IDF attacks in southern Lebanon. The army said that fighter jets targeted Hezbollah positions, including a military structure, a launch site and other terrorist infrastructure. Lebanon reported three wounded in an airstrike on a car in the southern village of Kafra.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the IDF eliminated a Hezbollah operative in Naqoura on Tuesday. The Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar<\/em> claimed the man, identified as Saleh Ahmed Mahdi, was an employee of the local water corporation and was killed in a drone strike while riding a motorcycle, “supplying water to the town.”<\/p>\nThis assassination followed another Hezbollah rocket barrage on northern Israel’s Golan Heights region, causing several fires. The barrage came after an Israeli Air Force attack 150 kilometers [93 mi.] deep into Lebanese territory, the furthest Israel has struck in Lebanon since the war began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thursday, 13 June 2024 | Hezbollah reported overnight Wednesday the death of Taleb Sami Abdallah, the commander of its Al Nasr unit known by his call sign Abu Taleb, in an Israeli-linked strike on a house in southern Lebanon. Abu Taleb is reportedly the most senior Hezbollah commander eliminated by Israel since the outbreak of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9632,"featured_media":224263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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