The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu assured this Tuesday that Israel killed Hashem Safi al Din, the supposed successor of Hassan Nasrallah in command of the Shiite group Hezbollah, as well as the latter’s possible replacement, during its bombing campaign in Lebanon.
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“We damaged Hezbollah’s capabilities. We have eliminated thousands of terrorists, including Nasrallah himself, Nasrallah’s successor and the successor of Nasrallah’s successor,” the Israeli president said in a statement.
Earlier, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had also said that Hashem Safi al Din “probably” died last Friday in an Israeli bombing. against Beirut.
“Hezbollah is a leaderless organization. Nasrallah was eliminated, his replacement was probably also eliminated,” the minister said during a visit to the Israeli Army’s Northern Command.
Nasrallah, who led the pro-Iran group for more than 30 years, was killed in an Israeli bombing raid on southern Beirut in late September.and less than a week later, Israel attacked the same area again to presumably kill his possible successor.
According to the Qatari network Al Jazeera, which cites Lebanese security sources, Hezbollah has lost contact with the cleric, although it has not yet confirmed his death.
Israel has been exchanging fire with the Lebanese group across the border for a year, and two weeks ago it launched an intense bombing campaign, focused mainly on southern and eastern Lebanon, but also against the capital, Beirut, in which He has killed numerous leaders of the group.
In addition, last week it launched a ground invasion in southern Lebanon, which Israeli authorities define as “limited operations” against Shiite infrastructure along the border, and which has led Israel to order the forced evacuation of more than a hundred locations in the area.
More than 2,000 people have been killed and a million displaced by Israeli attacks in Lebanon, according to Lebanese authorities.
Just this Tuesday, the Israeli Army announced the mobilization of the 146th armored division in Lebanese territory to carry out “limited, localized and specific operational activities” in southern Lebanon, according to a military statement, raising the number of divisions in the area to four.
According to The Times of Israel newspaper, the total number of soldiers deployed in Lebanon may already exceed 15,000, with those four divisions.
In his statements this Tuesday, the Prime Minister of Israel He also threatened the Lebanese people with “a long war that will bring destruction and suffering similar to what we see in Gaza” if it does not get rid of the Shiite group Hezbollah.
In a similar way to what he did with the Iranian people, whom he encouraged to turn their backs on their leaders, Netanyahu resorted to statements with overtones of psychological warfare to call on the Lebanese to “free the country from Hezbollah.”
“You have the opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss,” he said, ensuring that if the country frees itself from Hezbollah, the war can end.
The Hebrew president assured that it is Iran, and not Israel, that occupies Lebanon by sending weapons to Hezbollah to serve its interests.
Israel abandoned southern Lebanon in 2000, after an 18-year occupation that began in 1982 – troops reached south of Beirut – and which since 1983 has been located in the strip south of the Awali River.
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