Shafaqna India: Israel continued its attacks on Lebanon on Sunday, claiming the killing of another top Hezbollah official, as the US indicated it was increasing its air support capabilities in the Middle East and putting troops on a heightened readiness to deploy to the region.
The announcement from Washington came as the region was still reeling from the assassination of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a massive airstrike a day earlier. Ali Karake, the group’s top commander in southern Lebanon, and Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Gen Abbas Nilforoushan also died in the same attack.
Iran, which is considered a backer of the anti-Israel Hezbollah group, has vowed revenge for what it describes as a “horrible crime of the aggressor Zionist regime”, saying it will not go unanswered.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday that Israel should not be allowed to attack countries of the Iran-aligned “Axis of Resistance” one after the other.