The Israeli army mentioned on Saturday it had killed Jaafar Khader Faour, a senior commander of Hezbollah’s Nasser Brigade rocket unit in southern Lebanon. The army mentioned it has been liable for a number of assaults in opposition to Israel since October 2023.
Hezbollah didn’t instantly remark or affirm Faour’s dying.
“Faour was liable for a number of rocket assaults in direction of the Golan, together with an assault that killed Israeli civilians at Kibbutz Ortal, an assault on Majdal Shams that killed 12 kids and injured many, and the rocket assault on Metula on final Thursday, which led to the deaths of 5 civilians,” the Israel Protection Forces mentioned in an announcement.
The Hezbollah unit that fired the rockets towards Israel on October 8 was additionally beneath his command, the IDF famous.
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli naval forces mentioned they captured a senior Hezbollah official in northern Lebanon. Nevertheless, they didn’t reveal his id. An Israeli army official mentioned that “a senior Hezbollah official, who acts as an skilled in his discipline, was detained.”
Lebanese authorities additionally mentioned they have been investigating whether or not Israel was behind the seize of a Lebanese ship captain who was taken away by a gaggle of armed males who had landed on the coast close to the northern city of Batroun on Friday.
“The operation has been transferred to Israeli territory and is at present being investigated,” the army officer instructed the AP information company, with out offering the title of the detained particular person.
Lebanese army officers additionally added that the captured man, a captain, might have connections to Hezbollah. They famous that the investigation is analyzing whether or not the person was linked to Hezbollah or probably working for an Israeli intelligence company, with hypothesis that an Israeli drive might have come to take away him.
Hezbollah issued an announcement describing the occasion as “Zionist aggression within the Batroun space”, however didn’t present additional particulars or affirm whether or not one in every of its members had been captured by Israeli forces.
