Hamas and Hezbollah leaders who have been eliminated by Israel

Defense Minister Yoav Gallantsaid Thursday that Israel would pursue “all terrorists” after the military announced it was verifying whether Hamas chief Yahya Sinwarhad been murdered in Gaza.

Here is a list of operations against leaders and commanders of Hezbollah and Hamas attributed to Israel:

HIZBALLAH

Hasan Nasrallah

Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallahdied in Lebanon during an Israeli attack on September 27. Israeli intelligence agencies then determined that Nasrallah had died in the group’s underground headquarters, based on the number and size of the bombs used and information collected. Since the beginning of the offensive in Lebanon, Israel had eliminated the organization’s military leadership in two weeks.

Ibrahim Kobeisi

An airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on September 24 (during the afternoon of this Tuesday) has killed the commander Ibrahim Mohamad Kobeisihead of Hezbollah’s missile unit.

Kobeisi, (or Qubaisi) “commanded several missile units within the terrorist organization Hezbollah, including the Precision Guided Missile Unit. “Over the years and during the war, he was responsible for launching missiles at Israeli civilians.” This is how the Israel Defense Forces themselves describe it. According to the Israeli Army, he was “a significant source of knowledge in the field of missiles” and had direct contact with the highest ranking of the Shiite terrorist group.

Ibrahim Aquil

His death occurred on September 20 (last Friday) during an Israeli attack in the south of the Lebanese capital. A reward of 7 million dollars from the US Government weighed on the head of the former Hezbollah operations commander and member of the group’s highest military body.

A logical step after accusing him of having participated in the truck bomb attacks against the US embassy in Beirut in April 1983, in which 63 people died, and against a US Marine barracks six months later, in which 241 people died.

Aqil, who has also used the aliases Tahsin and Abdelqader, and was a member of the Jihad Council, the terrorist group’s highest military body.

Fuad Shukr

Fuad Shukr He found the scythe on July 30. Once again, an Israeli attack against the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital took the life of one considered one of the main commanders of Hezbollah, identified by the Israeli Army as the right-hand man of the group’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Shukr was one of the leading military figures since its founding more than four decades ago. He was also in the US crosshairs for being the planner of the 1983 attack on the US Marine barracks.

Muhammad Nasser

Nasser was responsible for part of Hezbollah’s operations on the border, according to senior security sources in Lebanon. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 3. An IDF representative claimed that he led a unit responsible for firing from southwestern Lebanon into Israel.

Taleb Abdullah

Abdallah, Hezbollah’s top field commander, was killed on June 12 in an attack claimed by Israel, which claimed to have hit a command and control center in southern Lebanon.

Lebanese security sources said he was Hezbollah’s commander for the central region of the southern border strip and had the same rank as Nasser. His assassination prompted the group to launch a massive barrage of rockets across the border into Israel.

HAMAS

Yahya Sinwar

Israel is currently investigating whether Yahya Sinwar (1962), the only major leader of Hamas after the death of Ismail Haniyeh in July, was eliminated this Thursday in an Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip. A hardline defender, radicalized after a long stay in prison, Sinwar was one of the ideologues of the 7-O attacks. In recent times, according to ‘The Wall Street Journal’, he had encouraged his men to hit Israeli civilian targets with intensity, promoting, among other things, that they carry out suicide attacks again.

Mohammed Deif

The Israeli Army declared that Deif died after a fighter jet attack in the Khan Younis area of ​​Gaza on July 13, following an assessment by intelligence services. The elusive Deif had survived seven assassination attempts by Israel.

Deif is believed to have been one of the masterminds of the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, which sparked the Gaza war. Hamas has never confirmed his death.

Ismail Haniya

Ismail Haniya was killed in the early hours of July 31 in Iran, the Palestinian militant group said.

The top leader of Hamas was eliminated directly at a residence in Tehran, where he was staying. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack.

Saleh Al-Arouri

An Israeli drone strike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, killed Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri on January 2 of this year. Arouri was also the founder of Hamas’s military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, led by Yahya Sinwar.