And he said Hezbollah In a statement, Sorour, nicknamed “Hajj Abu Saleh,” was born in 1973 in the town of Aita al-Shaab in South LebanonHe was killed in an Israeli raid In the southern suburb In the Lebanese capital.
And it was Israeli armyOn Thursday, it was announced that Sorour, commander of Hezbollah’s air unit, had been killed.
The army said in a statement: “Today, September 26, 2024, and under precise intelligence guidance from the Air Force and the Intelligence Division, fighter jets attacked the city of Beirut and killed… Muhammad Hussein SorourCommander of the air unit in the Hezbollah organization.
He added: “Sorour promoted, directed and led numerous air attacks, including drone and cruise missile attacks on Israel“.
The statement continued: “In recent years, Sorour was one of the leaders of drone production projects in Lebanon, and established sites for manufacturing explosives and assembling drones in Lebanon, some of which were located under civilian buildings in the capital and other areas in Lebanon.”
He continued: “Sorour joined the Hezbollah organization in the 1980s and played various roles, including the commander of the ground-to-air missile unit and the Aziz unit in the Radwan Force. Hezbollah also sent him to Yemen To work on the issue of the air system belonging to the terrorist authority Houthi“.
The statement concluded by saying: “During the Iron Swords War, he promoted and implemented many terrorist plans using drones, including drones and aerial units used in information-gathering and attack missions, which were directed to target the Israeli home front and IDF forces.”
On Thursday, Israeli Army Radio revealed that the Air Force carried out an “assassination operation” in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
And I mentioned Lebanese News Agency “Israeli warplanes launched a raid targeting an apartment with three missiles in a residential building in the Al-Qaim neighborhood, near St. Joseph School in the southern suburb.”
The Hezbollah group has received heavy blows recently with the assassination of some of its senior leaders and the explosion of thousands of wireless communications devices used by its members, causing a number of deaths and thousands of injuries.