Hezbollah members parade during a rally marking al-Quds Day, (Jerusalem Day) in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon April 5, 2024. (Credit: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)
BEIRUT — The Israeli army claimed it killed the "commander of Hezbollah's engineering unit" last week in a strike that also destroyed a "launching pad for attacks" in southern Lebanon, without specifying the location of the attack.
"Abdel Harb was an experienced and senior commander within Hezbollah," the army said in a statement. "He was involved in assembling and activating explosive devices against our soldiers … and he was responsible for numerous attacks against our forces from the Second Lebanon War [the name Israel uses for the July 2006 war] to this day."
This announcement coincides with condolence messages published last week on Hezbollah’s unofficial communication channels, paying tribute to the "martyr commander Adam Abdelhalim Harb," also known as "Hajj Ghaleb," who was from the village of Harouf (Nabatieh district).
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