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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Israeli strike on Kfar Rumman kills 2 Hezbollah fighters including commander

2024-02-23

[An Nahar] At least two Hezbollah fighters were killed and three others maimed in an Israeli dronezap on a residential building in south Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
on Thursday, a security source said.

Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
war broke out on October 7.

An Israeli drone shot two guided missiles at the building in Kfar Rumman, near south Lebanon's Nabatiyeh, the security source said, declining to be identified as they were not authorized to brief the media.

Israeli reports meanwhile said the slain Hezbollah fighters included a commander of the group's elite Radwan force who was responsible for the Shebaa Farms area.

Kfar Rumman lies around 12 kilometers from the Israeli border.

Hezbollah said it later fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at two Israeli military barracks in response to the Kfar Rumman attack.

Hezbollah had claimed a series of attacks on Israeli troops and positions on Thursday, including several which it said were in response to "Israeli attacks on villages and civilian houses."

The violence on the border has sparked fears of another full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah like that of 2006.

Since October, at least 273 people have been killed on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 42 civilians, according to an AFP tally.

On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to the Israeli army.

Last week, Hezbollah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
vowed that Israel would pay "with blood," after 10 civilians, including seven members of one family, were killed in Lebanon's largest single-day corpse count so far.

On Wednesday, an Israeli strike killed a woman and a girl, prompting retaliatory fire from Hezbollah.

The Times of Israel adds:

The Hezbollah terror group confirms the death of a second member killed today in an apparent Israeli strike.

He is named as Hisham Abdullah, and was reportedly killed in a strike in the southern Lebanon town of Kfar Remen, along with another operative, Hassan Saleh, whose death was announced earlier.

Abdullah’s death brings the terror group’s official toll since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip to 208.