An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed a senior Hezbollah commander, the Iran-backed militant group said. It named the commander as Sami Abdallah, alias Abu Taleb, born in 1969, in a statement reporting his death “with great pride and great honour”. A Lebanese military source said the commander was “the most important in Hezbollah to be killed up to now since the start of the war” between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, which has fuelled violence on the Lebanese border.
