Israel claims to have assassinated Hezbollah military official in strike on southern Lebanon – Middle East Monitor

The Israeli military claimed Wednesday that it had assassinated a senior Hezbollah military figure in a drone strike in southern Lebanon.

A military statement said that it had targeted the town of Babliyeh in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, “eliminating the Head of Firepower of the Zahrani sector in Hezbollah’s Badr Unit, Hussein Ali Muzhir.”

The army claimed that Muzhir “had been involved in coordinating rocket fire toward Israeli territory and had recently…