Senior Hezbollah commanders killed in Israeli strikes
Israel dealt a spectacular blow to Hezbollah by eliminating its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, on Friday, the culmination of a series of targeted assassinations that have significantly weakened the pro-Iran Shiite movement:
-Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah’s leader was killed on Friday afternoon in an Israeli attack on the movement’s headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut. His death was confirmed the next day by Hezbollah. At 64, he was the most powerful man in Lebanon and a charismatic leader of the party since 1992, when he succeeded Abbas Moussaoui, also assassinated by Israel. A sworn enemy of Israel, he had rarely appeared in public since the 2006 war between Israel and his movement, and his place of residence was kept secret.
– Nabil Qaouq. His death in an attack on Saturday in the southern suburbs of Beirut was announced Sunday morning by the Israeli military and confirmed by Hezbollah. Nabil Qaouq was a member of Hezbollah’s central council and responsible for security within the group.
-Ali Karaki. Ali Karaki, considered Hezbollah’s third military figure, was killed in the attack that also claimed the life of Hassan Nasrallah on Friday. Commander of the front with Israel in southern Lebanon, he survived an attack on him on September 23.
– Mohammed Srour. The head of Hezbollah’s drone unit was killed on September 26 in an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut. According to a source close to Hezbollah, he was one of the movement’s senior commanders sent to Yemen to train the Houthi rebels, also supported by Iran.
– Ibrahim Koubaissi. Ibrahim Koubaissi was killed on September 24 in an Israeli attack in the southern suburbs of Beirut. According to the Israeli military, he commanded several units, including a precision-guided missile unit; he was “He was an important source of missile knowledge and maintained close ties with senior Hezbollah military leaders.” according to her.
-Ibrahim Aqil. Head of Hezbollah’s formidable Al-Radwan unit, which he founded in 2008, Ibrahim Aqil was killed on September 20 along with fifteen other members of this force in an Israeli attack on a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The attack left a total of fifty-five dead, including civilians, according to Lebanese authorities. Considered as “terrorist” By the American State Department, Ibrahim Aqil was wanted by Washington for his participation in the anti-American attacks in Beirut in 1983.
Other Hezbollah figures have been targeted by Israel since the resumption of cross-border clashes almost a year ago, when Hezbollah opened a “support front” to Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip: Fouad Chokr, the military leader of Hezbollah, killed on July 30 in an attack in the southern suburbs of Beirut; Wissam Tawil, A commander of the elite Al-Radwan unit was killed in an Israeli attack on his vehicle in southern Lebanon in January.
