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Wednesday, August 28, 2024
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Hezbollah announces death of member, after reports of Israeli drone strike in Syria
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The Hezbollah terror group announces the death of a member killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” its term for operatives slain in Israeli strikes.
He is named as Muhammad Taha, from Baalbek.
His death brings the terror group’s toll since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip to at least 431.
The announcement comes following reports of an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle on the Beirut-Damascus highway, on the Syrian side of the border.
Two security sources told Reuters that four people were killed in the strike — a member of Hezbollah and three Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives.
