Jerusalem, September 29: The Israeli military announced on Sunday that it had killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike.
The military reported that Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s Central Council, was killed in an attack on Saturday.
Hezbollah had no immediate comment. Several prominent Hezbollah leaders have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in recent weeks, including the group’s overall leader, Hassan Nasrallah, on Friday in Beirut.
The group has also been targeted by a sophisticated attack on its pagers and walkie-talkies, and Israel has carried out waves of airstrikes across wide portions of Lebanon in the last week.
Hezbollah has continued to fire hundreds of rockets and missiles into northern Israel, but the majority have been intercepted or landed in open regions.
Kaouk was a Hezbollah veteran dating back to the 1980s who had previously served as the organization’s military commander in southern Lebanon.
The US had announced sanctions against him in 2020. (AP)