Israeli strike kills senior Hezbollah commander

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Hezbollah says one of its senior commanders has been ******* in an ******** air strike in southern Lebanon.

Mohammed Nimah Nasser is the latest senior member of the Iran-backed Lebanese armed group to be targeted by ******* during almost nine months of cross-border ********* which have raised fears of an all-out war.

Hezbollah said it had launched 100 rockets and missiles at ******** military positions “as part of the response to the **************”. No injuries were reported.

The ******** military said Nasser commanded a unit responsible for launching rockets from south-western Lebanon and accused him of directing a “large number of ******* attacks”.

It also described him as “the counterpart” of Taleb Sami Abdullah, the commander of another unit whose ******** last month prompted Hezbollah to launch more than 200 rockets and missiles into northern ******* in a single day.

Since then, there has been a flurry of diplomatic efforts to de-escalate tensions, with the UN and US warning of the potentially catastrophic consequences of a war that could also draw in Iran and other allied groups.

There have been almost daily exchanges of ***** across the *******-Lebanon border since the day after the start of the war between ******* and ****** in Gaza on 7 October.

Hezbollah has said it is acting in support of the ************ group that is also backed by Iran. Both are proscribed as ********** organisations by *******, the *** and other countries.

So far, more than 400 people have been reported ******* in Lebanon, the vast majority of them Hezbollah fighters, and 25 people in *******, mostly soldiers.

Tens of thousands from communities on both sides of the border have also been displaced.

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