Relatives react after the body of a victim was found after a reported Israeli bombardment hit a car in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Jan. 8.-/Getty Images
Israel said it killed the southern Lebanon commander of Hezbollah’s aerial unit in an air strike on Tuesday, hours after it said he led an attack on an army headquarters base in northern Israel.
Hezbollah later denied those claims, saying “the commander was never subjected to any assassination attempt as the enemy claimed,” in a statement on Tuesday.
Israeli military chief spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Ali Hussein Barji had led dozens of drone attacks on Israel, as Israel and Hezbollah have been waging their deadliest hostilities in 17 years.
Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion to eradicate Hamas has pushed almost all Palestinians toward Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. As the displaced population grows, life in the border city with Egypt becomes more desperate by the hour as they struggle to find food and drinking water.
The Associated Press