Global news outlets report that a targeted strike attack carried out earlier in Lebanon, in which a vehicle was attacked from the air, was an Israeli assassination of a senior Hezbollah official, Jawad al-Tawil.
According to AFP, an agency recognized as having reliable sources in Lebanon, the person who was killed in the vehicle was Jawad al-Tawil, a senior commander of the Redwan force, the elite force of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Al-Tawil is reportedly the most senior Hezbollah member killed since fighting began, and even his official Hezbollah death notice calls him "the commander," rather than a regular soldier, according to Kann News reporter Roi Kais.
According to other foreign publications, the assassination took place in the Kherbet Selm area in southern Lebanon, about ten kilometers from the border with Israel, and was carried out by a bomb from a remote IDF-manned aircraft.
If Israel indeed carried out this assassination, which it has not confirmed, it will be the first targeted countermeasures carried out against a senior Hezbollah official since the beginning of the fighting. This is a significant escalation, especially if a response to the damage to the strategic facility that Hezbollah carried out a few days ago.