Israeli military says it killed senior Hezbollah figure Nabil Kaouk

The Israeli military said on Sunday it had killed a senior Hezbollah official in an air strike on a Beirut suburb the day before, as it continued to target the Lebanese armed group.

The military said Nabil Kaouk, a member of Hezbollah’s central council, was “struck and eliminated” on Saturday, just a day after the group’s chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a similar strike.

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Hezbollah later on Sunday confirmed Kaouk was killed in a strike on Chiyah saying in a statement that Kaouk assumed many organizational responsibilities among the various Hezbollah units.

“Kaouk was considered to be close to Hezbollah’s senior commanders, and directly engaged in terrorist attacks against the state of Israel and its citizens, even in recent days,” the military said in a statement.

He joined Hezbollah in the 1980s and was “regarded as an important source of expertise in his field,” the military added.

In recent weeks, Israel has launched widespread strikes targeting senior Hezbollah commanders and the group’s weapons sites in southern and eastern Lebanon and in its south Beirut bastion.

On Friday, it killed the group’s chief Nasrallah in a strike that sent shock waves across the Middle East.

With AFP

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