The Israel Defense Forces on Friday confirmed that senior Hezbollah commander Mohammed Hussein Surour was killed during an airstrike in Beirut.
The airstrike occurred amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah which has escalated in recent times.
There seems to be no end to tension with an international bid to secure a ceasefire, which seems to fall apart.
Speaking on the airstrike, IDF posted on X: “ELIMINATED: Commander of Hezbollah’s Aerial Command, Muhammad Hussein Srour, in a precise IAF strike in Beirut.”
“Srour advanced and directed numerous aerial terrorist attacks aimed at Israeli civilians. During the ‘Iron Swords’war, he executed several terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers using UAVs and explosive devices,” the force said.
“In recent years, Srour led the manufacturing project of UAVs in southern Lebanon and established UAV manufacturing and intelligence gathering sites in Lebanon, located adjacent to civilian infrastructure in Beirut and southern Lebanon,” it said.
“He was also the commander in the surface-to-air missile unit, commander in the ‘Aziz’ Unit of the Radwan Force and Hezbollah’s emissary to Yemen and the Houthi terrorist regime’s Aerial Command,” the force said.
In a major update shared on Friday, the IDF said a missile was fired from Yemen toward Israel but successfully intercepted by the ‘Arrow’ Aerial Defense System.
“Sirens and explosions were heard following the interception and falling shrapnel,” read the IDF X post.
The Foreign Minister of Lebanon on Thursday said that the crisis in his country demanded urgent international action as Israeli attacks threatened to set off “a domino effect”, turning the entire Middle East region into “a black hole” of endless conflict.
“Today, we desperately need the United Nations to play its role as a refuge for small countries victimized by aggression, including my homeland, Lebanon,” said Abdallah Bou Habib, denouncing Israel’s attacks and calling for an end to the current conflict.
In his remarks to world leaders at the UN General Assembly, the Foreign Minister said: “What we are currently experiencing in Lebanon is due to the absence of a sustainable solution to the root of the crisis, which is occupation. To claim anything else would be a waste of time.”
“So long as the occupation persists there will be instability and there will be war.”
While reiterating that “at this very moment the future of Lebanon’s people is imperiled,” he described events over the past two weeks since the latest conflict had broken out.
