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Israel wipes out ‘entire senior command’ of Hezbollah special forces in airstrike| Avi Melamed’s insights quoted by Alex Shipman for the DAILY EXPRESS US.
Former Israeli intelligence official Avi Melamed told Daily Express US Israel is sending a clear message to Iran-backed Hezbollah.
“The message to Hezbollah is actually saying that Israel has the intelligence, technological and operational capacities to seriously damage Hezbollah,” he said.
“I would consider that to be a very serious warning signal from Israel to Hezbollah and Iran as well.”
Israel has continued to unleash devastating attacks on Hezbollah, taking out a number of the militant group’s senior personnel.
The entire senior command of Hezbollah’s Radwan special forces unit has been wiped out in an Israeli airstrike, according to reports.
New details are emerging after an airstrike in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood killed Radwan commander Ibrahim Aqil today. It came hours after a tech attack led to pagers and walkie-talkies exploding all across Lebanon as fighting in the region continues to intensify.
Israeli shelling on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital killed at least nine people and wounded nearly 60 others, according to health officials, as two apartment buildings were flattened.
Other “top operatives” of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force were also killed, Israeli military officials said.
Sources, speaking to Axios’ Barak Ravid, elaborated on this. “An Israeli official said that the entire senior command of Hezbollah’s Radwan force was eliminated in the strike (around 20 commanders),” he wrote on X.
A Hezbollah official confirmed to AP that Aqil was likely in a building in the Dahiya district that was hit.
He has previously been sanctioned by Washington for being involved in two 1983 terror attacks that left more than 300 people at the US embassy and US Marine Corps in Beirut dead.
The shelling came hours after the exploding electrical devices left at least 32 people dead and thousands more injured.
Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson, said of the Thursday strikes: “The attack in Lebanon is to protect Israel.” He said Aqil was a key instigator of regular rocket fire into Israel.
Former Israeli intelligence official Avi Melamed told Daily Express US Israel is sending a clear message to Iran-backed Hezbollah.
“The message to Hezbollah is actually saying that Israel has the intelligence, technological and operational capacities to seriously damage Hezbollah,” he said.
“I would consider that to be a very serious warning signal from Israel to Hezbollah and Iran as well.”
Israel wipes out ‘entire senior command’ of Hezbollah special forces in airstrike| Avi Melamed’s insights quoted by Alex Shipman for the DAILY EXPRESS US.
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