The Hezbollah group says that one of its commanders was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. This incident takes place at a time when the conflict in the Gaza Strip has increased in the region.

The Hizbullah group announced that Wissam al-Hassan Tawal was killed in an Israeli attack.

A security source told AFP that Hussam was leading the operations of the Hezbollah group on the border with Israel. This source, who does not want to be named, said that the commander’s car was attacked.

The Israeli army has said that it targeted Hezbollah facilities in Lebanon on Monday, but did not provide any further information about Tawal’s death.

The Hezbollah group has published pictures of Tawal, in these pictures, he is seen with the head of Iran’s National Guard, Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, and one of the group’s leaders, Imad Mughniah.

Qassem Soleimani was killed in an American airstrike in Iraq in 2020, and Mughniyeh was killed in an explosion in Syria in 2008.

Tawali is the highest-ranking leader of Hezbollah to be killed since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Last week, the deputy head of Hamas was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. After the killing of these people, there is a concern that the war in Gaza may spread in the region.

The Hezbollah group has said that it will respond to this Israeli attack soon.

European Union Parliament Foreign Relations Officer Joseph Borrell met the head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary section, Mohammad Raad, two days ago and asked him not to get involved in the Israel-Hamas war.

In November, Raad’s son was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon.

According to the report of France Presse, 180 people have been killed so far in the violence on the border of Israel, 135 of them are Hezbollah fighters and more than 20 others, three of whom are journalists, are civilians.

Israel says that nine soldiers and at least four civilians were killed in the northern part.