Two security sources told Reuters early Monday morning that Israel carried out a raid on the village of Sultaniya in southern Lebanon, killing three people, including a field commander in the Radwan Force, an elite force affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
The Lebanese Information Agency had quoted Hezbollah in a statement in which it mourned one of its members, Abd al-Amir Hassan Halawi, nicknamed Ali al-Rida, who was “born in 1976 from the town of Kafr Kila in southern Lebanon.”
For its part, the Israeli army said on Sunday that it had completed another step in preparing for a possible war on its northern front, where it has been exchanging fire with the Lebanese Hezbollah group for six months.
In a statement titled “Preparing for the Transition from Defense to Offense,” the army said that the completed phase focused on logistics for “a large-scale mobilization of IDF forces.”
The army added, “Commanders of regular and reserve units are ready to call and equip all required soldiers within a few hours and transfer them to the front line to carry out defensive and offensive missions.”
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire across Lebanon’s southern border since October 8, a day after an attack carried out by Hamas on Israel, which led to escalation of tension in the region.
2024-04-08 00:50:01
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