The Israeli army killed “the terrorist Farouk Amin Alasi, the Hezbollah commander of the Khiam area,” it said on Sunday.
“Alasi was responsible for carrying out many anti-tank missile and rocket attacks on Israeli communities in the Galilee Panhandle, and especially on Metula,” the tweet said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also “eliminated terrorist Yousef Ahmad Nun, a company commander of the Radwan Forces in the Khiam area who was responsible for rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on Israeli communities in the Galilee area and IDF forces operating in operated in the area. the army said.
Hezbollah has not yet commented on the two men who were allegedly killed. Khiam, close to the border with Israel, is the scene of ongoing fighting between the Israeli army and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia.
The IDF also “eliminated Radwan forces and other Hezbollah terrorists through airstrikes and close-quarters fighting,” it said in a statement, adding that soldiers also found large stockpiles of Hezbollah weapons.