Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranian figures blamed for their killings in Israel | Israel-Lebanon attacks News

The Israeli military says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a major Israeli airstrike in Beirut.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was reportedly killed in an Israeli bombing of the group’s headquarters south of Beirut.

Hezbollah has not issued a statement on the condition of Nasrallah, who has led the group for 32 years.

If the killing is confirmed, Nasrallah would be the latest name to be added to a growing list of Middle Eastern political leaders who have been hunted down by Israel in recent months, amid an escalation of violence in the region since October. 7.

Here is a list of other operations against Hezbollah and Hamas leaders and commanders, which may have been sought or suspected by Israel.

Hezbollah

• Hassan Nasrallah – An Israeli military spokesman announced that a Hezbollah commander had been “finished” in strikes in the Lebanese capital on Friday. In 2006, Nasrallah was also rumored to have been killed during Israel’s last war with Hezbollah, but later resurfaced unharmed.

• Ibrahim Qubaisi – An air strike in southern Beirut on September 24 killed Qubaisi, a commander and leader of Hezbollah’s rocket unit, two security sources said.
• Ibrahim Aqil – A Hezbollah operations commander, who served in the top military unit, was killed by an Israeli strike in an area south of Beirut on September 20. Aqil, who also used the aliases Tahsin and Abdelqader, was a member of Hezbollah’s top military organization, the Jihad Council. The United States has accused him of being involved in two deadly bombings in Lebanon that killed hundreds of people.
• Ahmed Wahbi – He was identified as the senior commander who oversaw the operations of the Radwan special forces in the Gaza war until the beginning of 2024. He was killed in an Israeli strike that targeted several senior officials, including Ibrahim Aqil, in the Beirut area on September 20. .

• Fuad Shukr – An Israeli strike in the southern area of ​​the Lebanese capital on July 30 killed Hezbollah’s top commander Fuad Shukr, identified by the Israeli military as Nasrallah’s right-hand man. Shukr has been one of Hezbollah’s military heroes since it was founded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps more than 40 years ago. The US imposed sanctions on Shukr in 2015 and accused him of playing a key role in the 1983 bombing of US forces in Beirut, which killed 241 soldiers.
• Muhammad Nasser – A senior Hezbollah leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 3 in Tyre, Lebanon. Israel said he was responsible, he said he led the unit responsible for the shooting in the south-west of Lebanon in Israel. Nasser, also known as Hajj Abu Nimah, was reportedly in charge of a section of Hezbollah’s operations on the Israeli border.
• Taleb Abdallah – A senior Hezbollah commander was killed on June 12 in a strike called for by Israel, which also hit a commanding officer in southern Lebanon. Security sources in Lebanon said he was a Hezbollah commander in the central region and the southern border and was at the same level as Nasser. His killing prompted the group to fire dozens of rockets across the Israeli border.

Hamas

• Mohammed Deif – The Israeli military said Deif was killed after warplanes struck the Khan Younis area of ​​Gaza on July 13 after a reconnaissance mission. The mysterious Deif had survived seven assassination attempts by Israel. Deif, one of the founders of Hamas’ military wing, the Qassam Brigades, is believed to have been one of the masterminds behind the attack on southern Israel on October 7 before the Gaza war.
• Ismail Haniyeh – Haniyeh was killed in the morning of July 31 in Iran, according to Hamas. It is reported that he was killed by a missile that hit him directly in the government guest house where he was staying in Tehran. Israel has never claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Saleh al-Arouri – An Israeli airstrike in the southern Beirut neighborhood of Dahiyeh killed Hamas Deputy Chief Saleh al-Arouri on January 2, 2024. Arouri was also the founder of Hamas’ military wing, the Qassam Brigades.

Iranian officials

• Mohammad Reza Zahedia senior commander in the elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and his deputy Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi they were killed in an Israeli airstrike in April that destroyed the Iranian embassy in Damascus.