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Hezbollah announces deaths of 8 operatives in IDF strikes in Beqaa Valley, including commander
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Hezbollah announces the deaths of eight operatives in last night’s Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon’s eastern Beqaa Valley.
One of the operatives, Hussein Mohammed Yaghi, is identified by Hezbollah as a “commander.” Hezbollah rarely refers to its senior operatives slain in Israeli strikes as commanders.
The terror group says the eight operatives were killed “while defending Lebanon and its people during a treacherous Israeli attack on the Beqaa region.”
The IDF said it had targeted three command centers belonging to Hezbollah’s missile array in the strikes, killing a “large number” of operatives.
According to Lebanese media, the strikes killed at least 10 and wounded over 50.
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