Hezbollah launches barrage of rockets at Israel after high commander killed | Hezbollah Information

Muhammad Nimah Nasser is no less than the third senior commander killed in cross-border combating since October.

Hezbollah says a high commander has been killed in an Israeli assault in southern Lebanon, no less than the third high-ranking official within the group to be killed in virtually 9 months of cross-border combating that has sparked fears of wider regional escalation.

The Lebanese armed group on Wednesday mentioned that Muhammad Nimah Nasser, also called “Hajj Abu Naameh”, had been killed. The Iran-aligned group later mentioned it had launched 100 katyusha rockets concentrating on Israeli navy positions.

The announcement of Nasser’s demise on the group’s Telegram didn’t present the placement, however a supply beforehand informed Al Jazeera {that a} commander had been killed within the Hosh space in Tyre in southern Lebanon.  A supply near the group confirmed to the AFP information company that Nasser had been killed within the Tyre assault.

The supply mentioned that Nasser had the identical rank as Taleb Abdallah, one other high commander who was killed by an Israeli assault in June. On the time, Abdallah was the highest-ranking Hezbollah navy official killed because the group started combating Israel on October 8 in response to bombardment of Gaza. Following Abdallah’s killing, Hezbollah launched one in all its largest rocket barrages on northern Israel.

The Israeli navy confirmed it focused Nasser, and mentioned he was a “counterpart” of Abdallah and accountable for Hezbollah’s “antitank and rocket fireplace from southwest Lebanon”.

The most recent assaults come amid an uptick in combating and charged rhetoric between Hezbollah and Israeli officers that has despatched US, European, and Arab mediators scrambling to forestall a wider regional escalation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned in late June that Israeli forces should shift their focus to northern Israel, whereas far-right Israeli ministers known as for a full-scale invasion of territory managed by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Protection Minister Yoav Gallant has mentioned Israel is looking for to forestall a wider struggle, however warned that its navy has the capability to take “Lebanon again to the Stone Age”.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah mentioned the group was prepared for struggle with “no restraint and no guidelines and no ceilings” within the occasion of a significant Israeli assault.

For its half, Iran has warned that “all Resistance Fronts” would confront Israel if it assaults Lebanon, referring to the armed teams it helps all through the area.

On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to forestall a “conflagration” between Israel and Hezbollah.

Macron “reiterated his severe concern over a deepening of tensions between Hezbollah and Israel … and underscored absolutely the want to forestall a conflagration that will hurt the pursuits of Lebanon in addition to Israel,” the French presidency mentioned in a press release.

In the meantime, US Envoy Amos Hochstein, who has made repeated visits to Lebanon in current months, was additionally set to reach in Paris on Wednesday to fulfill Macron’s Lebanon envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Gallant mentioned on Wednesday that assaults had been persevering with, including the navy will “attain a state of full readiness to take any motion required in Lebanon or to achieve an association from a place of power”.

Shortly earlier than he spoke, Israeli fighter jets had bombed a number of villages in southern Lebanon in a single day, together with Yaroun, Tayr Harfa and Aitaroun.

A day earlier, Hezbollah deputy commander Sheikh Naim Kassem mentioned the group would cease combating “with none dialogue” if a full ceasefire is reached in Gaza – a place it has maintained because the starting of the struggle.

At the least 543 individuals, together with 88 civilians, have been killed by Israeli assaults in Lebanon, whereas no less than 21 Israelis, together with 10 civilians, have been killed in assaults by Hezbollah and different armed teams in Lebanon because the starting of the struggle.

At the least 37,953 individuals have been killed in Israel’s struggle on Gaza since October, in response to Palestinian well being authorities. Israel launched the assault after a Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7 that killed no less than 1,139 individuals, in response to an Al Jazeera tally primarily based on Israeli statistics.