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JERUSALEM — The Israeli navy mentioned Sunday it has killed one other high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike because the Lebanese militant group was reeling from a string of devastating blows and the killing of its total chief, Hassan Nasrallah.
The navy mentioned Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s Central Council, was killed on Saturday. Hezbollah confirmed his dying, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah chief slain in Israeli strikes in a bit over every week. They embrace founding members who had evaded dying or detention for many years.
The Israeli navy mentioned it carried out one other focused strike on Beirut in a while Sunday, with particulars to comply with.
Hezbollah had earlier confirmed that Ali Karaki, one other senior commander, died in Friday’s strike that killed Nasrallah. The Israeli navy mentioned earlier that Karaki was killed within the airstrike, which focused an underground compound in Beirut the place Nasrallah and different senior Hezbollah figures have been assembly.
Israel mentioned not less than 20 different Hezbollah militants have been killed within the strike, together with two shut associates of Nasrallah, certainly one of whom was in command of his safety element.
Wreckage from the strike was nonetheless smoldering greater than two days later. On Sunday, Associated Press journalists noticed smoke over the rubble as individuals flocked to the positioning, some to test on what’s left of their houses and others to pay respects, pray or just to see the destruction.
Hezbollah has additionally been focused by a complicated assault on its pagers and walkie-talkies that was broadly blamed on Israel. A wave of Israeli airstrikes throughout massive components of Lebanon has killed not less than 1,030 individuals — together with 156 girls and 87 youngsters — in lower than two weeks, in accordance with Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
Hundreds of hundreds of individuals have been pushed from their houses in Lebanon by the newest strikes. The authorities estimates that round 250,000 are in shelters, with three to 4 occasions as many staying with mates or family members, or tenting out on the streets, Environment Minister Nasser Yassin instructed the AP.
Hezbollah has continued to fireside rockets and missiles into northern Israel, however most have been intercepted or fallen in open areas. No Israelis have been killed for the reason that newest wave of strikes focusing on high Hezbollah leaders started on Sept. 20.
Kaouk was a veteran member of Hezbollah going again to the Eighties and served as Hezbollah’s navy commander in southern Lebanon through the 2006 warfare with Israel. He typically appeared in native media, the place he would touch upon politics and safety developments, and he gave eulogies on the funerals of senior militants. The United States introduced sanctions in opposition to him in 2020.
Hezbollah started firing rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel after Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault out of Gaza triggered the warfare there. Hezbollah and Hamas are allies that take into account themselves a part of an Iran-backed “Axis of Resistance” in opposition to Israel.
Israel has responded with waves of airstrikes, and the battle has steadily ratcheted as much as the brink of all-out warfare, elevating fears of a region-wide conflagration.
Israel says it’s decided to return some 60,000 of its residents to communities within the north that have been evacuated almost a 12 months in the past. Hezbollah has mentioned it’s going to solely halt its rocket hearth if there’s a cease-fire in Gaza, which has confirmed elusive regardless of months of oblique negotiations between Israel and Hamas led by the United States, Qatar and Egypt.
