IDF confirms it carried out strike in Lebanon’s Tyre that killed senior Hezbollah commander

The Israeli military confirms it carried out an airstrike earlier today in southern Lebanon’s Tyre, killing senior Hezbollah commander Muhammad Nimah Nasser.

Nasser commanded Hezbollah’s Aziz unit, one of three regional divisions in south Lebanon. The unit is responsible for Lebanon’s southwestern region, from the coast to the Bint Jbeil area, and has carried out hundreds of attacks against northern Israel’s upper and western Galilee amid the war.

According to the IDF, he is the second most senior Hezbollah commander the military has killed amid the ongoing fighting, after the commander of the Nasr regional unit was killed last month.

Nasser was the commander of the Aziz unit since 2016, according to the IDF. He previously commanded Hezbollah special forces, and was involved in numerous attacks against Israel, including the 2006 cross-border kidnapping.

The IDF expects Hezbollah to respond with major attacks to Nasser’s killing, similar to how the terror group responded to the killing of Taleb Abdullah, the Nasr unit commander, in June.

Hezbollah’s third regional division in southern Lebanon is the Badr unit, which is deployed above the Litani river and is considered to be the terror group’s second line of defense.