An official with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says an Israeli strike in Syria killed a former personal bodyguard of group's leader.
FILE - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, right, gives an address while accompanied by his bodyguard Yasser Nemr Qranbish, during a rally to mark the sixth anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon after an 18-year occupation, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, on May 25, 2006. An Israeli strike in Syria Tuesday July 9, 2024 killed Qranbish, a former personal bodyguard of Hezbollah leader, an official with the Lebanese militant group said.
Hezbollah later identified the militant as Yasser Nemr Qranbish, though they did not disclose the details of his death as they normally do with combatants who aren’t in leadership roles. Since October and the Hamas attack on southern Israel, Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon have killed over 450 people, most of them Hezbollah fighters, but the dead also include more than 80 civilians and non-combatants.
For years, Israel has frequently launched strikes on targets in Syria linked to Iran, its powerful regional backer, but rarely acknowledges them. The strikes have escalated over the past five months against the backdrop of the war in Gaza and ongoing clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces on the Lebanon-Israel border.
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