The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday that their airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed a second commander of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as well as a Hezbollah "operative," raising the death toll of Hezbollah members killed on Tuesday to three.
An airstrike near the Shehabiya area in southern Lebanon killed Mohammed Hussein Shehouri, the IDF said on X, formerly Twitter.
It described him as a Hezbollah commander of the rocket and missile unit, adding that he was responsible for the planning and execution of many rocket launches toward Israel.
Hezbollah member Mahmoud Ibrahim Fadullah was also killed in the same attack. The IDF described him as an operative within the same unit.
Earlier on Tuesday, the IDF had said it killed another Hezbollah regional commander in a separate attack on the Ain Baal area in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah confirmed the deaths of its three members in separate statements, saying it struck several Israeli military bases "in response to the Israeli enemy's attacks" on Lebanese villages.
Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by the US, Germany and several Sunni Arab countries, while the EU lists its armed wing as a terrorist group.
