The Israeli military on Thursday said it killed Hezbollah drone commander Abu Saleh in an airstrike on a Beirut apartment building.
Hezbollah, in the aftermath of the strikes, had confirmed that its drone chief was targeted by Israeli forces. A source close to the group told news agency AFP that Israeli airstrikes targeted Mohammed Srur, known as Abu Saleh.
“The Israeli strike targeted the commander of Hezbollah’s drone unit, Mohammed Srur, known as Abu Saleh, whose fate is still unclear,” the Hezbollah official said at the time, after the Israeli military said it was “carrying out precise strikes in Beirut”.
The Lebanese state media said that the Beirut strikes killed two people.
Srur studied mathematics and was among a number of top advisers sent by Hezbollah to Yemen to train the country’s Houthi rebels, who are also backed by Iran, AFP said.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency said “three missiles” targeted “a residential apartment in a 10-storey building”.
The target of the strike was close to the building where the head of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, Ibrahim Aqil, and other commanders were killed in a strike last Friday.
Lebanon’s health ministry said that strike killed 55 people, including seven children.
Israeli bombing of Iran-backed Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon has killed hundreds of people this week, while the militant group has retaliated with rocket barrages.
Its army has already killed top Hezbollah commanders like Ibrahim Qubaisi, Ibrahim Aqil, Fuad Shukr, Mohammed Nasser and Taleb Abdallah.
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