00:00He's believed to be the highest-ranking Hezbollah fighter killed since the start of the war between
00:05Israel and Hamas.
00:07The Iran-backed militant group says Commander Sami Abdullah, who was also known as Abu Taleb,
00:12died along with three others after an Israeli airstrike hit the town of Juwaya Tuesday.
00:19The attack took place just 15 kilometres from the Israel-Lebanon border.
00:23At the beginning of the conflict, cross-border strikes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah
00:27were nearly daily, but recently attacks have ramped up to be almost hourly.
00:33With the fighting intensifying, the weapons being deployed are also becoming more sophisticated.
00:38Hezbollah used air defence missiles against Israeli fighter jets for the first time last
00:42Friday.
00:43Earlier this week, the militant group said it had shut down an Israeli Hermes drone,
00:48a large surveillance and attack UAV, over Lebanon for the fifth time since February.
00:54It comes as temperatures continue to rise along with the pace of attacks.
00:58That triggered major fires last week, particularly in northern Israel.
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