A Hezbollah official responsible for a drone strike in northern Israel was killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike on Tuesday, after the Iranian-backed terror group successfully carried out a drone attack on an Israeli base without causing major damage. It was done.
Early Tuesday morning, Hezbollah drones evaded Israeli air defenses and reached the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) northern command base, an operation of a Jewish news syndicate. report:
Hezbollah on Tuesday attacked the Israel Defense Forces' Northern Command headquarters in the Upper Galilee city of Safed with several drones.
The military said there were no casualties or damage from the attack and that the base was functioning normally after the attack. However, Hebrew media reported that there was minor damage to the base's infrastructure.
The terrorist organization said in a statement that in response to Israel's assassination of Radwan special forces commander Jawad al-Tawil in southern Lebanon and the alleged killing of Hamas terror leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut last week. He said that there is.
Israel responded with artillery and air strikes.
Ali Hussein Balji was killed in an airstrike. explained The Times of Israel reported that he was a “senior Hezbollah commander responsible for dozens of drone strikes against northern Israel in recent months.”
update: The IDF issued the following statement late Tuesday:
Today (Tuesday), IAF aircraft removed Ali Hussein Balji, commander of Hezbollah's air force's South Lebanon region. Ali led dozens of terrorist operations against Israel, using explosive and surveillance drones against Israeli and IDF soldiers. Mr. Ali also led an attack on the IDF's Northern Command earlier today.
Before he was eliminated, a launch cell belonging to Hezbollah's air wing that was on its way to launch explosive drones to various locations within Israel was eliminated.
Tensions have been rising along the Israel-Lebanon border since Hezbollah began sporadically firing missiles and rockets into Israel following Hamas' October 7 invasion of southern Israel.
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday Sunday nights from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET (4:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT) on Sirius XM Patriot. He published his 2021 e-book “The Zionist conspiracy (and how to join it)' has been updated and a new preface has been added. He is also the author of a recently published e-book. Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 US Presidential Election. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpolak.
