Israel blamed Hezbollah for the strike in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, but Hezbollah rushed to deny any role. Netanyahu warned that Hezbollah “will pay a heavy price for this attack, one that it has not paid so far."
Nasser is the highest-ranking official from the Iran-backed group to be killed since Taleb Sami Abdullah, who died in an airstrike on June 11. In a speech commemorating Abdullah, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah emphasised his pivotal role on the front lines.
Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as Western countries pleaded for restraint in responding to a volley of attacks from Iran.
Earlier, in January also, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group launched at least 62 rockets towards northern Israel in what it called an "initial response" to the targeted killing of senior Hamas leader.
Hezbollah had threatened to retaliate against Israel following an alleged Israeli strike in Beirut that killed Hamas' deputy political leader Saleh al-Arouri earlier this week. Israel has claimed to have struck a "terrorist cell" in retaliation as the war threatens to expand across the Middle East.
The rising cross-border attacks between Hezbollah and Israeli troops are threatening to expand the ongoing Israel-Hamas war into the Middle East. At least 80 people on the Lebanese side, including civilians, have been killed by Israeli forces.
Hezbollah is one of Israel's most powerful foes in the Middle East with a sizeable military arsenal. The conflict between the two stretch back to 1982 when Israel occupied southern Lebanon, and the Israeli troops withdrew in 2000.
According to Lebanese media, Hezbollah fighters set up a tent in a disputed area along the country’s tense southern border hours after an Israeli drone destroyed another one in the same place. Lebanon claims the Golan Heights in Syria that is occupied by Israel.
Hezbollah says it hit “open fields” near Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa farms area, with “dozens” of rockets. No casualties were reported.
Beirut: Top military commander Mustafa Badreddine, who died in an explosion in Damascus, is the latest of a number of senior figures from the Lebanese Shiite guerrilla group to be killed in past years. In
Jerusalem: At least two Israeli soldiers and a Spanish UN peacekeeper were killed and seven others injured when a missile fired by Lebanese Hezbollah group hit an army convoy today, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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