The Israeli army killed “the terrorist Farouk Amin Alasi, the Hezbollah commander of the Khiam area,” it said on Sunday as fighting continues in southern Lebanon.
“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.
Lebanon: Fighting continues over villages in the south
Fighting between Israeli ground forces and fighters from the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia continues in several villages in southern Lebanon.
Soldiers tried to enter the villages of Marun al-Ras and Jarun, state news agency NNA reported on Sunday. There had already been reports of widespread destruction in these villages during the Israeli ground offensive.
Israeli forces bombarded the strategically important city of Khiam with artillery, NNA reported.
The newspaper L’Orient Le Jour, citing the Lebanese Red Cross, reported that the deaths of 20 people reported missing in Khiam had been confirmed. The television station LBCI reported that a hospital in Bint Jubayl was damaged in an Israeli airstrike.
Hezbollah continued its shelling of Israel and announced that it had attacked several Israeli cities with rockets. The information cannot be independently verified at this time.
UN: Humanitarian situation in Lebanon worse than 2006 war
The United Nations says the humanitarian situation in Lebanon is worse now than during the last war against Israel 18 years ago.
“The humanitarian situation in Lebanon has reached a level that exceeds the severity of the 2006 war,” the UN emergency aid agency OCHA said on Sunday.
“The situation has escalated again in recent days, with the Israeli army issuing displacement orders for residents of Baalbek and Nabatieh shortly before airstrikes targeted these locations.”
The agency said the toll on the population has been “exacerbated by the destruction of critical infrastructure, including healthcare, with many hospitals overwhelmed and reportedly urgently requesting blood donations to address the critical influx of victims.”
The current war between Israel and Hezbollah began on October 8 last year with rocket attacks by the Lebanese Shia militia in support of the Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, which had launched the Gaza war the day before with its terrorist attack on Israel.
Nearly 3,000 people have been killed and another 13,300 injured in Lebanon since then, according to official reports. The Ministry of Health does not distinguish between civilians and members of Hezbollah in its lists.
The dead also include about 180 minors and 600 women. In its latest report, OCHA highlights that more than 11,000 pregnant women have been affected by the war, including 1,300 who had to give birth in a healthcare system on the verge of collapse.
Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon Imran Riza condemned attacks on civilians and infrastructure and called for “an immediate cessation of hostilities to protect vulnerable populations.”
