According to Israeli military, another Hezbollah drone commander Mohammed Srour, aka Abu Saleh, has been killed in an airstrike in Beirut. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) released a video of the attack and said that the mission was carried out by the Israeli Air Force and the Intelligence Division.
The Israeli military confirmed that its fighter jets “targeted and eliminated” Muhammad Hussein Srour and identified him as “the commander of Hezbollah’s air unit”. This is the fourth attack in a week targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah members.
“In recent years, he was one of the project leaders for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles in Lebanon, established sites to create explosives and drones in Lebanon, some of which were located under civilian buildings in the capitals and other areas in Lebanon,” said Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) in a statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the 21-day truce proposal by the US, France, and other allies and ordered his troops to continue the fight with “full force”.
“We will speak in actions, not words,” Netanyahu wrote on X. “Let no one be confused: we will not stop hitting Hezbollah until we return our residents safely to their homes,” he said in another post.
Israeli strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon have killed more than 700 people this week and displaced about 1,18,000 people, raising fears of all-out war in the Middle East.
