HIBAPRESS – Agencies
Youssef Hashem, the official in charge of the military and security file for Iraq at "Hezbollah", was martyred in the Israeli raid on the Al-Jinnah area in Beirut after midnight on Tuesday, Wednesday, according to a security source and a source close to Hezbollah.
The security source said that "a senior leader in Hezbollah, who is the military and security official for the Iraq file named Youssef Hashem, nicknamed Al-Sayyed Al-Sadiq, was martyred in the strike on the Al-Jinnah area in Beirut," explaining that "he was in a meeting with other elements of the party, inside a tent near several cars". A source close to Hezbollah confirmed this information, while the Ministry of Health announced a new toll of seven martyrs. The emergency operations center of the Public Health Ministry said in a press release that "the Israeli enemy's raid on the Al-Jinnah area in Beirut resulted in a final toll of seven martyrs and the injury of 26 others." In the context, the Israeli occupation army carried out, on Wednesday, air strikes and artillery shelling on many towns in southern and eastern Lebanon, which led to the fall of martyrs, wounded, and destruction of property. The Lebanese News Agency reported that the Israeli warplanes launched raids on the towns of Al-Ghandouriyah, Kafr, Hanin, Srifa, and Al-Marwaniyah. The Israeli escalation included targeting the area between Houmine al-Tahta and Bnefoul, and 4 raids on the town of Sahmar in the western Bekaa, according to the same source.
