Middle East|Israel has struck Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Important commanders of the extremist organization’s military leadership have died.
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Israel has killed several Hezbollah leaders, including Ibrahim Aqil and Fuad Shukr.
Netanyahu announced an expansion of the Gaza war targets, which accelerated the attacks.
Israel and Hezbollah are in an escalated conflict that has killed hundreds of people.
Gazan The conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed extremist organization Hezbollah, which started at the beginning of the war, escalated on Monday, when hundreds of people were killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
Israel has stepped up its attacks against the extremist organization after the country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced About the expansion of the goals of the Gaza war a week ago. Israel seeks the safe return of Israelis evacuated from northern Israel to their homes on the Lebanese border. Lebanon-based Hezbollah has responded to Israel’s attacks with its own rockets.
The announcement has been followed by, among other things, attacks on Hezbollah’s pagers and walkie-talkies around Lebanon. The attacks on the means of communication used by Hezbollah weakened the extremist organization, HS said on Monday. Israel has also killed several Hezbollah leaders this year.
According to Israel, its attacks have been aimed especially at the military infrastructure built by Hezbollah over two decades, reports the news agency Reuters. Israeli Defense Minister by Yoav Gallant according to him, this has been “the most difficult week for Hezbollah since its foundation”.
On Friday, Israel carried out an airstrike in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, in which, according to Israel, several people who joined Hezbollah’s Radwan forces were killed. The most famous of them include the veteran commander of the Radwan forces Ibrahim Aqilhead of Radwani’s training unit Abu Hassan Samir and second in command, Ahmed Mahmud Wahbi.
According to the information gathered by HS, the leadership of Hezbollah’s military operations has rapidly thinned out in Israel’s attacks.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
Alive of the existing leaders, the most important for Hezbollah is Hassan Nasrallahthe leader of an extremist organization. He has led the extremist organization founded in the early 1980s since 1992. Nasrallah has close relations with Iran, which supports Hezbollah, and with the country’s spiritual leader and supreme authority, the Ayatollah to Ali Khamenei.
Nasrallah is hardly seen in public places. According to the BBC he fears Israel will assassinate him. Instead, Nasrallah gives televised speeches to his supporters regularly. He has, among other things, given a video speech last November After the Gaza war broke outin February to warn about the dangers of smartphones and last Thursday after the media attacks.
“Without a doubt, we have suffered a big blow,” Nasrallah said in a speech on Thursday, according to the news channel According to CNN.
Commander Ali Karaki
of Israel the army has told about Monday’s attack on the commander Ali Karakia, but Hezbollah has denied that Karak is dead. According to the extremist organization, Karaki was managed to be moved to a safe place under the attack. They tell about it news agency Axios and Institute for the Study of War –think tank.
Karaki has led Hezbollah’s battles near the borders of Lebanon and Israel. He is responsible for the activities of Hezbollah’s Badr, Nasser and Aziz regional units. After the death of other higher-ranking commanders, Karaki is the number one commander of the extremist organization.
Commander Abu Ali Rida
Commander Abu Ali Rida works in the organization under commander Ali Karak. So far, there is no information about the attacks on Ali Rida.
Radwan commander Ibrahim Aqil
Last among the Hezbollah commanders killed in the attacks of the past few days, the highest-ranking one commanded the Radwan forces Ibrahim Aqil. He was killed in an Israeli attack on Beirut on Friday, September 20, 2024.
An estimated 2,500 fighters have belonged to Hezbollah’s elite unit, the Radwan forces.
According to the Israeli army, 16 Hezbollah members were killed in the attack, who were holding a meeting in a civilian area of Beirut at the time of the attack. Hezbollah has confirmed the number of its members killed in the attack. Bystanders, including children, were also killed in the attack, according to Lebanese authorities.
Aqil was responsible for the 1983 Beirut bombings of the US Embassy in Lebanon and an Army Marine base. Aqili is wanted by the United States because of the attacks.
Commander Fuad Shukr
To Hezbollah high-ranking commander Fuad Shukr died in an Israeli strike To Beirut at the end of July. Shukri’s role in the extremist organization has been central. It has been reported that he was a close confidant of Nasrallah and was one of his top advisers.
Shukri is also wanted by the United States for his involvement in the Beirut car bombing in 1983.
Earlier this year, commanders were also killed in Israeli attacks Wissam al-Tawil, Taleb Sami Abdullah and Mohammed Nasser.
In January, Wissam al-Tawil died in his own car in an Israeli drone strike, reports CNN. In June, military commander Taleb Sami Abdullah was killed in an airstrike. In early July, commander Mohammed Nasser was killed in an airstrike in the city of Tire in Lebanon. Hezbollah has told about its own counterstrikes, which have been undertaken after the leaders were killed.
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