Israel eliminates Hezbollah field commanders in Khiam, Gahar, others

Admin I Wednesday, November 13, 2024

 

TEL AVIV – The Israeli Defence Forces, IDF has announced that it eliminated some field commanders of the Islamic Resistant movement in Southern Lebanon.

In the statement, the IDF identified those eliminated as field commanders  in  Khiam, Tebnit, and Ghajar, and the anti-tank missile Commander of the Hajir area.

Among those he said were eliminated are Hajj Ali Yussef Salah, who served as the Hezbollah commander of the Tebnit area, Ayman Muhammad Nabulsi, the incoming commander of the ‘Nasser’ Unit’s anti-tank missile array in Hajir.

According to the IDF,  “at the beginning of the month of October, the IAF struck and eliminated Hezbollah’s Commander of the Khiam area, Muhammad Musa Salah, in the area of Khiam”,  the IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said, adding that Salah directed many terror attacks against the State of Israel, and was responsible for the launches of more than 2,500 projectiles toward the areas of the Golan Heights, the Upper Galilee, the Galilee Panhandle, and toward IDF troops operating in southern Lebanon.

“During an additional strike this week (Sunday) in southern Lebanon, the terrorist Ayman Muhammad Nabulsi, the incoming commander of the ‘Nasser’ Unit’s anti-tank missile array in Hajir, was eliminated”, he said.

“Furthermore, during additional precise strikes, the IDF eliminated the Hezbollah commander of the Ghajar area, as well as the terrorist Hajj Ali Yussef Salah, who served as the Hezbollah commander of the Tebnit area”.

This development he said, further degrades Hezbollah’s capability to carry out terror attacks from southern Lebanon against Israeli civilians on the northern border. The IDF will continue to operate to thwart any danger or threat against the State of Israel.

He explained that the IAF  a short while ago carried out an additional series of strikes in the Beirut area, successfully targeting and destroying nine weapons storage facilities and command centers, which he said were used by Hezbollah,  and that they were deliberately embedded in civilian areas.

“Prior to the strikes, the IDF made extensive efforts to minimize harm to civilians, including by collecting advance intelligence, leveraging precise aerial surveillance, and issuing advance warnings to civilians in the area to evacuate.

“These strikes are part of the IDF’s ongoing efforts to degrade Hezbollah’s ability to carry out attacks against Israeli civilians and the IDF, and part of the effort to dismantle weapons storage and manufacturing facilities that Hezbollah has established over the years in the heart of Beirut”.