At least five persons were killed by Israeli strikes on Thursday, according to militant groups and a security source. Among them was the chief of a group in Lebanon that is associated with Hamas.
Israel has been hitting Jamaa Islamiya terrorists on a regular basis since Hamas’s onslaught on October 7th, which ignited the Gaza War. For the previous nine months, the organization’s armed wing has attacked Israel from southern Lebanon.
Three persons were killed and numerous others were injured in an Israeli hit on a home close to the southern village of Jmaijmeh, according to a Lebanese security source.
Hezbollah said that Ali Jaafar Maatouq and another member were among the deceased. He was identified as the commander of the Islamist organization’s elite Al Radwan operations unit by a source close to the group.
After conducting an airstrike against “a command center where Hezbollah terrorists were operating in the Jmaijmeh region,” the Israeli army declared that Ali Jaafar Maatouq had been “eliminated.”
Another member of Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli raid in southern Lebanon, the group had earlier announced. The Israeli army declared that he was “involved in numerous attacks against Israel” and acknowledged that it had killed him “in the Qana area”.
The army claimed to have killed another Al Radwan commander in Majdal Selm, close to Jmaijmeh; however, Lebanese sources did not immediately corroborate this claim.
In a statement, the Hamas-affiliated armed group Jamaa Islamiya announced that its commander, Mohamad Jbara, had perished in a “despicable Zionist raid” in the eastern Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.
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