Another top Hezbollah official killed by Lebanon strike, Israel claims
Nabil Qaouq is most recent Hezbollah leader to be killed, Israel said, adding that it continued to hit ‘dozens’ more targets around Lebanon
Israel announced the killing of Nabil Qaouq, a member of Hezbollah’s central council in a strike on Saturday, adding that its air force continued to hit “dozens” more targets around Lebanon on Sunday.
At least 105 people in Lebanon had been killed, according to a Reuters tally of health ministry statements late on Sunday.
Israeli strikes have in recent months decimated Hezbollah’s senior command structure, with Nasrallah’s right-hand man Fuad Shukr, head of the elite Radwan Force Ibrahim Aqil, and others among the dead.
The past week’s waves of strikes on Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon have also plunged the tiny Mediterranean country and the wider region into fear of even more violence to come.
Hezbollah launched low-intensity cross-border strikes on Israeli troops after its Palestinian ally Hamas staged its unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, sparking the war in Gaza.
Nearly a year later, Israel announced a shift in its focus to battling Hezbollah on its northern front.
Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah’s killing in a massive strike on Friday on the group’s main bastion in south Beirut.