{"id":279735,"date":"2024-01-09T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T08:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=279735"},"modified":"2024-01-10T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T09:03:36","slug":"israel-assassinates-hezbollah-commander-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=279735","title":{"rendered":"Israel assassinates Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Jan 8, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A senior commander of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has been assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wissam Hassan al-Tawil (pictured above, left) was killed when the strike hit the vehicle transporting him in the village of Khirbet Selm on Monday.<\/p>\n

The commander served with Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan ground force.<\/p>\n

Israel has been desperate in its ground invasion of the besieged Gaza Strip since early October. The regime has achieved no objectives in Gaza, killing more than 23,000 people notwithstanding.<\/p>\n

Southern Lebanon has also been tense ever since, with Hezbollah and Israeli forces exchanging fire across the border on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

On Monday, another Hezbollah member was also killed in an Israeli airstrike on the village of Majdal Selm.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah has already warned the regime of the consequences of further escalation in the region.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Hezbollah\u2019s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Israel is concealing the \u201cheavy losses\u201d it has suffered in southern Lebanon since the Lebanese resistance movement\u2019s operations against the occupying regime are \u201cvery exhausting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Israeli military has admitted that its strategic air base on Mount Meron was \u201cseriously damaged\u201d in a recent missile strike by Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

It was a retaliatory strike by Hezbollah in the wake of Israel\u2019s January 2 assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hezbollah and its backers may wish to avoid escalating the conflict but Israel has assassinated another senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon. Coming days after the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri this could force them to take more drastic action. Was that the intention behind the killing, are Israel\u2019s leaders looking for a more decisive, final confrontation? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":279747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279752,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279735\/revisions\/279752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}