Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
An Israeli strike on August 9 killed a military commander of the Palestinian Hamas Movement in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported that the commander, Samer al-Hajj, was traveling in a SUV when it was struck by two missiles. A Hamas source and two other security sources told Reuters that al-Hajj’s bodyguard was also critically wounded in the strike.
In a joint statement claiming responsibility for the assassination, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet security agency said that al-Hajj was responsible for “advancing terror attacks and projectile launches from Lebanon toward Israeli territory.”
Al-Hajj was the commander of Hamas’s military forces in the Ein al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon, and responsible for “recruiting and training terrorists to attack the State of Israel,” the statement added.
Hamas’ military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, mourned al-Hajj in a statement, vowing to continue “the path of resistance” against Israel.
Separately, the IDF announced that it also struck targets of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on August 9, including several rocket launchers in the town of Kfarhamam which were primed for an attack on northern Israel.
The military added that other Hezbollah infrastructure was struck in the towns of Ayta ash-Shab, Markaba, Mhaibib and Kafr Kila.
The recent Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, including the one that killed al-Hajj, will likely provoke a fierce response from Hezbollah. The group responded in the past to Israeli attacks on its allies in Lebanon.
Hezbollah and its allies began launching near-daily attacks against the IDF in support of Hamas and other armed factions in the Gaza Strip after the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave last October.
So far, the confrontation has resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Golan as well as the deaths of at least 18 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 600 people have been killed, including 384 fighters of Hezbollah and over 100 civilians.
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come on now hamas and hezbollah, by now you should know that the jews’ intelligence network is formidable and they can pick you off one after the other. do something about it – never travel by day fir example but first of all uncover the jews’ spies and make an example of them.and then aim you missiles on netanyahu who deserves more than any other living oerson a gruesome death.
all this intelligence data comes form $lumville ussa and the monopoly its resident zionaiz$ have over communications and of course their killers at al cia/duh. people must shun the zionazi web of evil and its so-called network of social media treachery.
all this incompetence of stoopid palestenian terror rats will end with them being left for dead
it is not untrue.
more uneducated talk from a nobody living in a place nobody cares about. armchair generals are the worst.
shoigu went to tehran and said: “niet niet, no retaliation.”
the middle east needs to go to war, the entire region against the zionist pieces of s***t.
the zionazi beast must be destroyed and soon. humanity can no longer condone this depravity from this sub human filth.
yeah, but you are not human…
so, die m0therf0kker!
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lol
the real subhuman filth are the palestenian terror rats bring bubonic plague every where. meanwhile russia cannot defend their home turf let alone defeat the ukris. you must be a crying bitch right now
… … word!
yes but uk and us will join war so how can they win ?
you president just said this, quote on quote: “ashindlrik to mandrlik, aşçindrlik, alibaba, babakhan, bashbabakhan, bashbabakhankhan kaumakoglu, bich birich bitch birich birbirich bich birich bich birch ashkeznma ashkznma, white ass is good to rape, sunowa bitch!”.
meaning he won’t let israel do anything but if they do, he’ll just shoot dog.
yes, we turks live white womens and goats. and to shoot dog! achiburibiri open sesame sheherzade, very nice how many you raiped in belgius? i gud.
we turks worst scumbags on the earth.
ham@ss is f_cked.
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lol
hezbollah either has a million commanders or israel is full of garbage, because hezbollah is still operating just fine all these years apparently. hehehehhe