The Israeli army announced Thursday the elimination of Ali Youssef Horchi, personal secretary, adviser and nephew of Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, in a strike on Beirut's Tallet el-Khayat neighbourhood.
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The Israeli army announced Thursday the elimination of Ali Youssef Horchi, personal secretary, adviser and nephew of Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, in a strike on Beirut's Tallet el-Khayat neighbourhood.
"Ali Horchi was a close personal adviser to Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem and played a central role in managing and securing his office," said Ella Waweya, the IDF's Arabic-language spokesperson, in a statement posted on X. Local media reported that Horchi had been residing in the building struck in the upscale Beirut district.
The assassination came as part of a sweeping Israeli campaign that saw the IDF carry out 100 strikes in 10 minutes across multiple neighbourhoods of Beirut, its southern suburbs and regions throughout Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon. .
Among those confirmed killed was Sheikh Sadek Naboulsi, a prominent religious and media figure within Hezbollah, who died in a strike on a complex in the southern city of Sidon.
Israel's defence ministry said on Monday France had banned Israeli government officials from a major weapons show in Paris, and had imposed restrictions on companies from the country exhibiting there.
The medieval Beaufort Castle's stone ramparts tower so far above south Lebanon that Israel could hail their capture as a strategic victory, even as it evoked the miseries of a previous occupation.
Lebanese Justice Minister Adel Nassar has launched a pointed attack on Hezbollah, accusing the Iran-backed group of undermining Lebanon's ability to conduct meaningful negotiations with Israel and dragging the country into wars its people never chose.
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