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Beirut, Lebanon—Israel said Sunday it killed another senior Hezbollah official in an air strike on the Lebanese capital after dealing the Iran-backed group a seismic blow by assassinating its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
The past week’s waves of strikes on Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon have also plunged the tiny Mediterranean country and the wider region into fear of even more violence to come. Nearly a year later, Israel announced a shift in its focus to battling Hezbollah on its northern front. The Israeli military said on Sunday its air force had struck “dozens of Hezbollah terror targets” after carrying out “hundreds” of strikes on Friday and Saturday.Hezbollah has yet to officially announce Qaouq’s death but a source close to the group said he had been killed.
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