Israel kills Hezbollah commander with airstrike on car carrying him through streets of Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces says it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike that targeted a car driving down the streets of southern Lebanon on Monday.

Video of the strike shows the car carrying Hezbollah’s Hajir chief Hassan Hussein Salami driving through the village of Majadel as an IDF aircraft locks in on the vehicle.

A bomb is quickly dropped on the car, which erupts into flames and crashes into a nearby building before stopping.

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An IDF airstrike destroyed a vehicle carrying Hezbollah commander Hassan Hussein Salami.

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Salami allegedly served as senior official in the terror group and led several strikes against the IDF along the northern border.Hezbollah

A vehicle that was driving on the other side of the road and was right next to the car carrying Salami when the airstrike hit avoided the blast and sped away.

The IDF said Salami belonged to the terror group’s Nasser unit and had been in charge of numerous attacks carried out against the Jewish state along the northern border, including the recent missile attacks targeting two military bases.

Hezbollah officials confirmed Salami’s death on Monday, but the Iran-backed terror group did not identify him as a commander.

Along with the strike that killed Salami, Israeli warplanes killed at least two Hezbollah members in the Bekaa Valley on Monday, the deepest attack into Lebanon since hostilities surged with the terror group over the war in Gaza.

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Salami’s vehicle was driving down a road in Majadel, Lebanon, on Monday.

“Its aggression on Baalbek or any other areas will not remain without response,” Hezbollah politician Hassan Fadlallah said of the attacks during a televised funeral of a fellow militant.

Following the warning, Hezbollah launched 60 Katyusha rockets aimed at Israel’s army headquarters in the Golan Heights, one of the most intense attacks so far.

The IDF did not report any injuries as a result of the barrage in Golan Heights.

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The strike against the Hezbollah commander came as two other terrorists were killed in another strike in the Bekaa Valley.

The continued escalation between Israel and Hezbollah has sparked fears that the war in Gaza will break out across the region and bring further instability.

The Israeli military has said it would “continue operating to defend the State of Israel from the threat of Hezbollah terrorist organization, including in aerial operations above Lebanese territory.”

Since Oct. 7, Israel has killed some 200 Hezbollah fighters in airstrikes in Lebanon, along with an estimated 50 civilians.

Hezbollah missile attacks into Israel have killed a dozen IDF soldiers and five civilians.

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