Hezbollah commander killed in alleged Israeli attack as border tensions mount
Terror group says Wissam al-Tawil, a deputy commander in an elite unit, has been killed in southern Lebanon in a move said to deal a 'painful' blow
A senior commander of a secretive Hezbollah force was killed in an alleged Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Monday, ratcheting up tensions as violence along the border threatened to escalate into all-out war.
Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy head of a unit within the terror group’s elite Radwan force, was killed in the Lebanese town of Majdal Selm when a missile slammed into the SUV he was in, according to Lebanese security sources in a strike that analysts said represented a significant blow to the Iran-backed group.
The apparent assassination will likely also complicate US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s bid to keep Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip from expanding into a second front as the top US diplomat makes a whirlwind tour to the region.
Hezbollah confirmed that Tawil was killed, naming him as one of the group’s fighters, but provided few other details.
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