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2024-07-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Hezbollah rains rockets on Israeli bases after another top commander assassinated
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[An Nahar] Hezbollah said it fired more than 100 rockets at Israeli positions on Wednesday in retaliation for a strike that killed a senior commander in south Lebanon, the movement's second such loss in recent weeks.
Hezbollah has traded near daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army since its Palestinian ally Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, triggering war in Gaza, but an uptick in bellicose rhetoric from both sides in recent weeks has raised fears of all-out war.
"A Hezbollah commander responsible for one of three sectors in south Lebanon was killed" in an "Israeli strike on a car in Tyre," a source close to the group told AFP, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Hezbollah later said that "commander Mohammad Naameh Nasser," also known as "Hajj Abou Naameh" had been killed, and also announced the death of a second fighter.
The Israeli army said in a statement that it "eliminated" Nasser, saying he was "the commander of the Hezbollah terrorist organization's Aziz Unit which is responsible for firing from southwestern Lebanon at Israeli territory."
In consecutive statements, Hezbollah said that "as part of the response to the attack and assassination that the enemy carried out" in south Lebanon's Tyre, its fighters attacked three positions in the Israeli-annexed Syrian Golan Heights with over 100 Katyusha rockets.
Hezbollah also claimed another retaliatory attack with Falaq rockets on a base in northern Israel's Kiryat Shmona as well as an attack with Burkan rockets on the Zar'it barracks.
An Israeli military spokesperson told AFP that about 100 rocket launches had been made towards Israel from Lebanon.
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