by Emanuel Fabian at The Times of Israel
Hezbollah announced the death of a senior commander in an alleged Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday night, as the terror group fired some 80 rockets at northern communities throughout the day amid increasing cross-border hostilities.
The Iran-backed group said in a statement that Taleb Abdullah, also known as Abu Taleb, from the south Lebanon town of Aadachit, was killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” the terror organization’s term for Israeli strikes.
He was killed in an airstrike in the town of Jouaiyya, some 15 kilometers (9 miles) north of the border with Israel. Another three Hezbollah operatives were killed in the strike.
Abu Taleb was the most senior member of the group killed in the eight months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, a security source told Reuters.
He was identified by security sources as the terror group’s commander for the central region of the southern border strip…
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