Hezbollah confirms commander killed by Israeli airstrikes

Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Abbasiyeh on September 24, 2024.
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Hezbollah announced early Wednesday (September 25, 2024) the death of a commander hours after the Israeli army said it had killed him in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which Lebanese authorities said left six people dead.

In a statement, the Iran-backed group announced the death of “commander Ibrahim Mohammed Kobeissi”, who was “martyred on the road to Jerusalem”, the phrase Hezbollah uses to refer to fighters killed by Israeli forces.