Israel says it has killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike

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******* says it has ******* another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike

JERUSALEM (AP) — The ******** military said Sunday that it ******* another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike as the Lebanese militant group was reeling from a string of devastating blows and the ******** of its overall leader,

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The military said Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s Central Council, was ******* on Saturday. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah, and it was not known where the strike took place.

If confirmed, he would be the

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in ******** strikes in a little over a week, including founding members who had evaded ****** or detention for decades. The ******** military said it carried out another targeted strike on Beirut later on Sunday, with details to follow.

Hezbollah meanwhile confirmed that one of the seven, Ali Karaki, ***** in Friday’s strike that ******* Nasrallah. The ******** military had earlier said that Karaki was ******* in the airstrike, which targeted an underground compound in Beirut where Nasrallah and other senior Hezbollah figures were meeting.

Hezbollah has also been targeted by a sophisticated ******* on its

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that was widely blamed on *******. A wave of ******** airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon has ******* at least 1,030 people — including 156 women and 87 children — in less than two weeks, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been driven from their homes in Lebanon by the lastest strikes. The government estimates that around 250,000 are in shelters, with three to four times as many staying with friends or relatives, or camping out on the streets, Environment Minister Nasser Yassin told The Associated Press.

Hezbollah has continued to ***** rockets and missiles into northern *******, but most have been intercepted or fallen in open areas. No Israelis have been ******* since the latest wave of strikes on top Hezbollah leaders began on Sept. 20.

Kaouk was a veteran member of Hezbollah going back to the 1980s and served as Hezbollah’s military commander in southern Lebanon during the 2006 war with *******. He often appeared in local media, where he would comment on politics and security developments, and he gave eulogies at the funerals of senior militants. The ******* States had announced sanctions against him in 2020.

Hezbollah began ******* rockets, missiles and drones into northern ******* after ******’ Oct. 7 ******* out of Gaza triggered the war there. Hezbollah and ****** are allies that consider themselves part of an Iran-backed “Axis of Resistance” against *******.

******* has responded with waves of airstrikes, and the conflict has steadily ratcheted up to the brink of all-out war, raising fears of a region-wide conflagration.

******* says it is determined to return some 60,000 of its citizens to communities in the north that were evacuated nearly a year ago. Hezbollah has said it will only halt its rocket ***** if there is a cease-***** in Gaza, which has proven elusive despite months of indirect negotiations between ******* and ****** led by the ******* States, Qatar and Egypt.

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Chehayeb reported from Beirut.

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