Hezbollah Retaliates for Commander’s Death... Drone Attack on Israel

The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah attacked the Israeli Northern Command headquarters with drones.

According to major foreign media on the 9th (local time), Hezbollah stated, "We deployed multiple drones to attack the enemy's Northern Command headquarters in Safed, northern Israel," adding, "This is retaliation for the death of Hezbollah senior commander Wissam al-Tawil."

On the 8th (local time), the Israeli military conducted airstrikes on targets of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
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The Israeli military confirmed the drone attack on that day but reported no casualties. They also stated that they struck the southern Lebanon area from which the drones were launched.

The previous day, the Israeli military conducted an airstrike in Mazdal Selm, southern Lebanon. During this operation, al-Tawil, the commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan unit who was in a vehicle, was killed. It is known that more than 135 Hezbollah members have died in Lebanon so far.

Al-Tawil is the highest-ranking Hezbollah commander to have died since the outbreak of the Gaza Strip war in October last year. AFP cited sources saying the deceased commander was responsible for managing Hezbollah operations in southern Lebanon.

Earlier, on the 2nd, Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of Hamas's political bureau, was killed in a drone attack on the outskirts of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Since then, the level of armed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has escalated. With the death of a senior Hezbollah commander, concerns are rising that a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah could break out.

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