Israeli forces killed Hezbollah’s top drone commander on Thursday, according to reports, marking the fourth senior Hezbollah leader to be eliminated by the Jewish state in just over a week. The news came after the Biden-Harris administration announced that it would not provide Israel with intelligence or support for its military campaign in Lebanon.
Mohammed Srur, also known as Abu Saleh, is reported to be dead after Israel carried out "precise strikes" in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, according to the Israeli military. Srur is just the latest senior Hezbollah commander to be killed during a week of unprecedented airstrikes across the country that have thinned the terror group’s top ranks and kneecapped its stockpile of advanced arms.
The ongoing air attacks show that Israel has no trouble locating Hezbollah’s top leadership, even as the Biden-Harris administration withholds intelligence on the terror group. Asked Wednesday whether the administration is supporting Israel's operations in Lebanon, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said, "No. No support."
Even without America’s support, Israel has demonstrated over the past week that it has the resources to locate, track, and eliminate Hezbollah’s core leadership.
Israel has logged close to 3,000 flight hours during its intensive operations, using more than 250 warplanes to drop an estimated 2,000 munitions across 200 separate locations in Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday.
The pinpoint strikes have destroyed around 400 medium-range rocket launchers, 70 weapons storage depots, and around 80 drones and cruise missiles.
They've also killed at least three other senior commanders, including rocket and missile division head Ibrahim Qubaisi, military operations head Ibrahim Aqil, and training unit head Ahmed Wahbi. Along with these leaders, Israel has killed scores of elite Hezbollah footsoldiers.
The Biden-Harris administration, meanwhile, has scrambled to thrust an emergency ceasefire agreement on Hezbollah and Israel, but both sides have rejected these efforts.
Along with France and Arab countries, the United States is proposing a 21-day ceasefire that would stop Israel from dismantling Hezbollah’s command centers and weapons depots.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu almost immediately rejected the agreement, saying the war will continue "with full force."
"The news about a ceasefire—not true," Netanyahu wrote on X. "This is an American-French proposal, to which the prime minister did not even respond."