Israeli army claims it killed senior Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon

The Israeli army claimed on Sunday that it killed Abu Hassan Alaa, a senior commander of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, in a strike in southern Lebanon’s Ansar municipality, Anadolu reports. The army said on US social media platform X that Alaa was “a senior commander in Hezbollah’s ‘Badder Unit’” and was killed in an attack that targeted a main Hezbollah headquarters, alleging that it came in response to Hezbollah activity against the Israeli army “in the Security Zone.” Hezbollah did not immediately comment on the Israeli statement. READ: Lebanon banker exposed as major force behind normalisation drive with Israel On Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office claimed that three Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded in an attack it said was carried […]