Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon

Members of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation), carry the coffin of Abu Baqr al-Saadi, a prominent leader in the Kataeb Hezbollah, who was killed in a strike carried out a day earlier by an American drone that targeted his car in a vital neighbourhood in Baghdad, during his funeral in Baghdad on February 8, 2024.
Members of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation), carry the coffin of Abu Baqr al-Saadi, a prominent leader in the Kataeb Hezbollah, who was killed in a strike carried out a day earlier by an American drone that targeted his car in a vital neighbourhood in Baghdad, during his funeral in Baghdad on February 8, 2024. Photo: AFP

An Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle and killed a Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon.

A Lebanese security source said a military official from the group was “seriously wounded” in an Israeli strike in the city of Nabatiyeh.

The Israeli military later informed the AFP its attack killed a Hezbollah commander who had a part in cross-border rocket attacks.

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister, Abdullah Bou Habib, said on Monday that about 100,000 people in the south of the country have been displaced by Israeli attacks.

Local media reported that 182 members of Hezbollah and at least 30 civilians have been killed in southern Lebanon amid exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel since early October.