Virtually all of Hezbollah’s senior commanders have been killed, Israeli forces have mentioned – as Hezbollah confirmed the dying of its chief Hassan Nasrallah in airstrikes in Beirut.
The Israeli military mentioned it killed the chief of Hezbollah with a sequence of assaults and claimed to have struck the group’s central headquarters.
It follows Israel in current weeks firing a barrage of strikes into Lebanon, repeatedly concentrating on Hezbollah’s management construction and killing a whole bunch.
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In keeping with the Israeli military, the one Hezbollah commander nonetheless alive is Abu Ali Rida – the commander of the Bader regional division. His location is unknown.
However who’re the Hezbollah commanders the IDF says it has killed?
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Hezbollah commanders killed, in response to the IDF
Hassan Nasrallah
A passionate and fiery orator, Nasrallah was the chief of the Shia political and navy faction Hezbollah.
The secretary normal of Hezbollah was thought of by many to be the only strongest particular person in Lebanon with as many as 100,000 fighters at his disposal and members of his group being MPs as effectively.
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Israel has launched strikes in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and Bhamdoun in current days
Underneath his management, the group has been remodeled from a primarily navy drive into a significant political participant in Lebanon.
After he was killed, the IDF mentioned: “Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorise the world.”
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Hezbollah has confirmed the dying of Hassan Nasrallah. Pic: AP
Ibrahim Muhammad Qabisi
Ibrahim Muhammad Qabisi headed Hezbollah’s missile and rockets drive and is claimed to have been killed on Tuesday after an Israeli Air Power (IAF) airstrike.
The IDF mentioned in a press release Qabisi – often known as Hajj Abu Musa – joined Hezbollah within the Nineteen Eighties and was answerable for an assault in 2000 the place three Israeli troopers had been kidnapped and killed.
Ibrahim Aqil
Ibrahim Aqil, Hezbollah’s operations commander, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 21 September, alongside a number of different senior commanders of the militant group’s Radwan particular forces unit.
Aqil served because the performing commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Power and on the Jihad Council, the group’s highest navy physique.
The US State Division sanctioned him for his alleged function within the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut, which killed 63 folks, and an assault on a US Marine barracks in the identical yr, killing 241 folks.
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The US sanctioned Aqil for his alleged function within the bombing of the US embassy in Beirut
Fuad Shukr
Fuad Shukr, described as “the right-hand man” of Nasrallah and “the highest-ranking military commander” in Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut on 30 July.
The IDF blamed him for an assault that left 12 youngsters and youngsters useless within the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Hezbollah denied accountability for the strike.
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Fuad Shukr is described as Nasrallah’s ‘right-hand man’. Pic: Reuters
Ali Karaki
The commander of Hezbollah’s southern entrance, the IDF mentioned Karaki was killed alongside Nasrallah on Saturday.
He was the goal of two earlier Israeli assassination makes an attempt.
The primary got here in February when he evaded an Israeli automotive bombing in Nabatieh, and the second got here on 23 September when the IAF struck an house within the Bir al Abed space of the Dahieh district in Beirut.
Wissam al Tawil
The earliest assault on a Hezbollah commander, Wissam al Tawil was killed on 8 January.
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Wissam al Tawil was killed on 8 January. Pic: Hezbollah Navy Media/AP
Abu Hassan Samir
Abu Hassan Samir, who served as the pinnacle of the Radwan Power coaching unit, is claimed to have been killed on Friday 20 September.
The IDF mentioned in a press release: “He held various positions within the terrorist organisation and was commander of the Radwan Force for a decade until early 2024.”
Muhammed Hussein Srour
The commander of Hezbollah’s aerial command, Muhammed Hussein Srour was killed on Thursday in an IAF strike.
The IDF mentioned he “led the manufacturing project of UAVs in southern Lebanon” and labored on “manufacturing and intelligence sites… located next to civilian infrastructure”.
Taleb Sami Abdulla
Taleb Sami Abdullah, often known as Al-Hajj Abu Taleb, was killed on 12 June in an airstrike on Jwayya.
He was mentioned to be the pinnacle of the Al-Nasr unit, which operates within the japanese sector of south Lebanon.
Mohammed Nasser
The pinnacle of Hezbollah’s Aziz Unit, primarily based in southwestern Lebanon, is claimed to have been killed on 3 July.
The IDF described Nasser as “the counterpart” of Taleb Sami Abdullah
