Israel’s military has continued its air campaign against Hezbollah, carrying out dozens of additional raids on Sunday targeting the militant group’s infrastructure across Lebanon. The strikes come in the wake of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination on Friday.
As Israel pressed its offensive, two more senior Hezbollah commanders, Nabil Kaouk and Ali Karaki, were confirmed killed in the airstrikes.
🔴ELIMINATED: The Commander of Hezbollah’s Preventative Security Unit and a member of their Executive Council, Nabil Qaouk, was eliminated in a precise IDF strike.
Qaouk was close to Hezbollah’s senior commanders and was directly engaged in terrorist attacks against the State of… pic.twitter.com/dcvKLRkMbf
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 29, 2024
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, head of Hezbollah’s Preventative Security Council, was killed in a strike Saturday, while Hezbollah acknowledged the death of Ali Karaki, a senior commander, in the same Friday strike that eliminated Nasrallah. Kaouk, a key figure in Hezbollah’s leadership, had played a prominent role within the organization since the 1980s.
According to the Lebanese health ministry, Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon on Sunday killed at least 105 people, with heavy casualties reported in the southern city of Sidon and the Baalbek Hermel region. The strikes, which have frequently targeted Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut’s southern suburbs, also extended to central Beirut for the first time in nearly a year. An airstrike in a predominantly Sunni district of the city hit a residential building.
This is the Deepest Strike into the Lebanese Capital of Beirut in Decades, they must have been Aiming for an Important Target. pic.twitter.com/HVbGw3MObu
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 29, 2024
The IDF confirmed that its air forces targeted “buildings where weapons and military structures of the organization were stored.” In a statement on social media, the IDF emphasized its ongoing efforts to “degrade Hezbollah’s military capabilities and infrastructure” in Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from his trip to the United Nations earlier than expected as Israel prepared for a possible ground invasion into southern Lebanon, with reservists being called up to the northern front.
The escalation in Israeli operations extends beyond Lebanon, as reports surfaced of Israeli airstrikes on Houthi military targets in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. Israeli officials confirmed that the strike was in response to recent missile launches by the Iran-backed Houthis, who had fired three ballistic missiles at Israel earlier this month. The IDF stated that it targeted Houthi-controlled oil facilities and military infrastructure used to transfer Iranian weapons, aiming to disrupt the Houthis’ logistical support for Hezbollah and other regional militias.
The Houthis are getting a pounding right now.
IDF isn’t missing a beat. https://t.co/Kkb8no0FsI pic.twitter.com/1uasAlQJSO
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) September 29, 2024
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