Israel will conduct its military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria and anywhere else they find the militant group, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a post on X Friday.
"This is true for Beirut, Baalbek, Tsor, Sidon, Nabatieh and the entire width of the sector and it is also true for much more distant places like Damascus .... wherever we need to act, we will act," the minister said, while visiting Israel’s Northern Command to examine the killing of a high-ranking Hezbollah missile commander Israel said it killed on Friday.
The Israel Defense Forces said that Ali Abed Akhsan Naim, allegedly the deputy commander of Hezbollah's Rocket and Missile Unit, had been killed in an airstrike in the area of Bazouriye in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah and Israel have been engaging in deadly cross-border strikes the last few months, which has displaced tens of thousands of Lebanese and Israeli residents from their homes.