Israeli Drone Strike Near Tyre Killed Senior Hezbollah Commander
BEIRUT: An Israeli drone strike on Wednesday in the area East of the City of Tyre assassinated Hezbollah commander Mohammed Naameh Nasser, also known as Abu Naameh, and critically wounded another man who died of his injuries later. Aziz Unit is in charge of the western sector of southern Lebanon, and its commander at the time of the Freeway incident was Abu Naameh. His position was of the same level as another senior officer, Taleb Sami Abdullah, or Abu Taleb, who was also killed a fortnight ago.
Abu Taleb, the commander of the Nasr Unit, perished in the war, and he is the first officer of such a rank and file in the continuing conflict with the Israel enemy, which has been raging for eight months. He was killed in an Israeli air strike in a house in the Jouaiyya suburb of the town approximately 15km from the southern Lebanon border along with three other Hezbollah members.
As far as the intensity of the attacks carried out by Israel is concerned, they were not equal in the past few days. On Wednesday morning, the fighting apparatus attacked the town centre in Taybeh with a combat drone. The city of Kfarkela came under Israeli artillery attack in the early morning; an Israeli Merkava tank aimed at a house by the border wall.
As this conflict in the south and the deliberate slaughtering of its people, the systematic destruction of towns and burning of crops, this is terror aggression, Prime Minister Najib Mikati pointed out on this endeavour, peace initiators and global powers, where are the efforts to keep up the lid on this Israel?
During the meeting, Mikati stressed Lebanon’s adherence to the principles of peace based on rights and justice and supporting international law, particularly Resolution 1701. He has emphasised that Lebanon will not accept its sovereignty, dignity, and the security of its territories and people being targeted in any way.
“Violations of all agreements and genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza must not go unnoticed by the world, which is passively watching the ongoing aggression,” he added.
Emphasising this fact, he said that real peace is only possible if the Palestinian people are accessible in an independent country. Thus, violating the above principles, he stated that new crises would occur in the Middle East and different regions.
Regarding such issues, Lebanon is pinning its hope on the American-French initiative to stem any deterioration in the south. A session between the French special representative Jean-Yves Le Drian and the American counterpart Amos Hochstein is expected to cover matters concerning demarches to decrease tension and the return of displaced persons on both sides of the Blue Line. During the phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, French President Macron focused on the need to urge the sides to calm the situation and find a diplomatic way of solving the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In Beirut, its deputy head, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said to the Associated Press that for the cease-fire on the Lebanon border, cease-fire in Gaza has to be total. He referred to Hezbollah’s backing for Gaza as a ‘front of support for the steady Palestinian people and their great struggle’. He advised that if Israel planned a limited incursion into Lebanon, it should not assume that the battle would be contained.
Consequently, Tehran has upped support for Hezbollah in preparation for possible Israeli strikes. That is why Kamal Kharazi, the foreign affairs adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, said to the Financial Times that wide-scaled Israeli aggression against Hezbollah may cause the regional conflict, with Tehran and the resistance axis supporting Hezbollah in full. However, he was keen to stress that Iran does not want a regional coup and that extending the conflict will not be in anyone’s interest.
