The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Wednesday that they destroyed 50 Hamas sites in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City in the last 24 hours. The IDF said it found operational tunnels in the area, as well as “Kalashnikov-type weapons, grenades, cartridges and other combat equipment.” They also said they killed a number of Hamas fighters, although they did not provide details. The IDF added it was also active in central Gaza and Rafah, where they “destroyed a number of terrorist infrastructures and eliminated terrorists in the area.”
Hezbollah unit commander reportedly killed in Israeli raid
Hezbollah unit commander Abu Ali Nasser was killed in an Israeli drone raid on southern Lebanon, according to a report by the Saudi news outlet Al Hadath on Wednesday. Nasser was allegedly the head of Hezbollah’s Aziz unit which operates in the eastern district of Lebanon’s border with Israel. The target of the Israeli drone was a car in Tyre, a coastal city in Lebanon. Al Hadath sources claim the commander killed in the attack is nicknamed Abu Nimah and is from the town of Hadatha. Israel launched a series of raids on southern Lebanon in which several towns were targeted. The attack comes at a time of heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah and amid fears of an inevitable escalation of the conflict in southern Lebanon.