Lebanese resistance movement has confirmed assassination of a senior commander in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon.

In a statement on Wednesday, Hezbollah announced that Mohamed Naim Nasser had been martyred.

It did not provide details about the circumstances of the assassination.

Reports said earlier in the day that Israel killed the commander in an air raid on the Hosh area in Tyre.

In response to the assassination, Hezbollah said its fighters launched “100 Katyusha rockets” targeting two Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights. It was, the statement said, part of Hezbollah’s “response to the attack and assassination that the enemy carried out.”

Two security sources told Reuters news agency that the assassinated commander was responsible for a section of Hezbollah’s operations at the border, where the group and Israeli forces have been fighting since October.

The exchange of fire has intensified since Israel assassinated senior Hezbollah commander Sami Taleb Abdullah in June. That assassination prompted Hezbollah to fire its largest barrages of drones and rockets against Israeli targets yet in retaliation.

Hezbollah has made it clear that a comprehensive ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is the sole way to bring calm to the Lebanese border.