After the southern suburb of Beirut witnessed a raid targeting the Al-Qaim neighborhood near Hadi Nasrallah Road, adjacent to the Buffalo area, which led to the killing of the commander of the Hezbollah air unit, responsible for the marches and known as “Abu Saleh,” the Israeli army revealed a video of the raid that It claimed his life and information about him.

Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee announced, through his account on the “X” platform, the elimination of the commander of Hezbollah’s air unit, Muhammad Hussein Sorour.

Watch the video of Sorour's assassination

Adraee said that Sorour directed and supervised the implementation of “terrorist operations using drones, cruise missiles and drones that were directed to target Israel’s internal front,” as he claimed.

He also said, "Over recent years, Sorour has been considered one of the pioneers of drone production projects in Lebanon, as he established production sites for dive drones and drones tasked with collecting information in Lebanon, some of which were placed under civilian buildings in Beirut and other Lebanese regions."< /p>

Adraee added, “Sorour had joined the Hezbollah terrorist organization during the eighties of the last century and performed a series of jobs, including commander of the ground-to-air missile unit, the “Aziz” unit affiliated with the Radwan unit, and Hezbollah also sent him to Yemen to work on the issue of the Houthi air system. ".

In turn, Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadath sources confirmed that the targeted leader, named Muhammad Hussein Sorour, whose nom de guerre is “Abu Saleh,” was seriously injured and led to his death.

She also said that Sorour was in charge of the air unit in Yemen and was responsible for launching missiles and drones from there, and he returned from Yemen to Lebanon only 3 days ago.

It is noteworthy that the southern suburb is considered Hezbollah’s stronghold and its den in Beirut. It is a densely populated area, but it nonetheless includes several facilities and institutions for the party.

Since last week, it has witnessed two assassinations and an assassination attempt that targeted an elite group of Hezbollah leaders, in painful strikes that indicated the possibility of a major security breach within the Iranian-backed party, especially since it came two consecutive days after the bombing of thousands of pager and walkie-talkie devices that Its members use it, leaving dozens dead, including civilians, in addition to wounding 1,500 party members in their eyes and hands, according to what previously informed sources told Reuters.