Hezbollah confirmed Arshin’s death in a statement (Representative)
The Israeli military said an airstrike in Lebanon on Sunday “neutralized” a Hezbollah missile force commander, amid months of almost daily cross-border fighting between the Israeli and Iranian-backed groups.
The Israeli Air Force “shot down a vehicle in the area of Ismail Arzin in the Kunin region of Lebanon,” the military said. “Alsin is an important commander of the anti-tank missile unit of Hezbollah’s Radwan forces.”
Hezbollah confirmed Arsin’s death in a statement but did not specify whether he was part of the elite Radwan unit.
Hezbollah, which has a powerful arsenal of rockets and missiles, has frequently exchanged fire with Israeli forces since its ally, the Palestinian group Hamas, launched an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7, triggering the Gaza war.
The village of Kunin is about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Lebanese-Israeli border.
The attack came two days after the Israeli military said it killed the deputy chief of Hezbollah’s rocket unit during an attack in southern Lebanon.
The military said at the time that Friday’s attack in the town of Bazuriya killed Ali Abdul Hassan Naeem, “one of the leaders of the heavy warhead rocket launch responsible for carrying out and planning the attack on Attacks on Israeli civilians”
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant later visited the army’s Northern Command and said the army would continue to take action against Hezbollah.
“We will make them pay for every attack from Lebanon,” he said.
An Israeli strike in Syria also killed seven Hezbollah fighters on Friday, according to a Britain-based war monitor.
Israel did not comment on the report, but Northern Command Galante added: “We have gone from repelling Hezbollah’s men to pursuing them. We reach all the places where Hezbollah is.”
According to AFP statistics, since the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7, cross-border fighting has killed at least 348 people in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters, and at least 68 civilians.
The fighting has displaced tens of thousands of people in southern Lebanon and northern Israel, where the military said 10 soldiers and eight civilians were killed.
Hezbollah says it targets Israel to support Hamas.
Hamas attacks in October killed about 1,160 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli data.
Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas and its retaliatory actions have killed at least 32,782 people, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
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