Hezbollah Loses Another Senior Commander
October 19, 2024
6:24 PM
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The IDF announced on Saturday morning that Hezbollah deputy commander Naser Abed al-Aziz Rashid was eliminated in an air strike Friday afternoon. Rashid had been the deputy commander of the strategically important Bint Jbeil area of southern Lebanon, and his removal from the battlefield marks another crushing blow for Hezbollah.
The IDF said it's troops had scored many other battlefield successes over the past 24 hours, including the capture and destruction of large quantities of Hezbollah weapons and ammunition as well as over 120 Hezbollah positions. This included bunkers, tunnels, firing points and weapons stockpiles.
The Air Force hit several Hezbollah weapons storage facilities and a Hezbollah intelligence headquarters command center in the southern Beirut neighborhood of Dahiyeh, according to a military statement on Saturday evening. Prior to the strikes, civilians living in the area were warned to move away from the buildings that were about to be targetted, in line with standard IDF procedures.
The IDF also announced that operations are continuing in southern Lebanon and there will be more progress to report in the near future. Hezbollah fired over 200 weapons into northern Israel on Saturday, causing damage and some casualties, including one fatality.