Two Strikes: IDF eliminates Hamas weapons supplier in Gaza & Hezbollah top dog in Beirut

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said there is a growing concern in Lebanon that Israel, “which has been acting with impunity, will increase its strikes”.

Israel and the US have been piling pressure on Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah.

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The IDF and Shin Bet say they eliminated Alaa Hadidi, the Hamas weapons manufacturing logistics chief, in an airstrike in Gaza City yesterday.
According to the military, the strike was carried out in response to an Arab terrorist’s attack on IDF forces in southern Gaza.
 
Hadidi is described as a key expert in weapons supply and production, responsible during the war for arming Hamas terrorists.

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Israel kills top Hezbollah commander in attack on Lebanon’s capital

Israeli source: We informed the US ahead of the strike in Dahiya Beirut that targeted Hezbollahs chief of staff.

Tabatabi has a $5 million US reward on his head.

Israel tried to eliminate him twice during the war. This is the third time.

Hezbollah confirms death of ‘great commander’ Haytham Ali Tabatabai, and says the Israeli attacks ‘open door to escalation of assaults’.

A crowd gathers below a damaged residential building following an Israeli military strike in southern Beirut’s Haret Hreik neighbourhood

Hezbollah has confirmed that its top military commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai has been killed in an Israeli air strike on Lebanon’s capital.

Tabatabai, the chief of staff of the group’s armed wing, was among at least five people killed in the attack on an apartment block in the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeh in southern Beirut on Sunday.

In a statement, Hezbollah said “the great commander” Tabatabai was killed in “a treacherous Israeli attack on the Haret Hreik area in the southern suburbs of Beirut”, without specifying his position within the group.

Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since the start of a November 2024 ceasefire aimed at ending over a year of hostilities between the two.

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The IDF says it carried out a series of airstrikes in southern Lebanon a short time ago, striking Hezbollah positions in the Nabatieh region.
According to the military, Hezbollah “continues efforts to reestablish its terror infrastructure across Lebanon,” adding that such activity “violates the understandings in place between Israel and Lebanon.”
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The Israeli military said it “eliminated” Tabatabai in the strike, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office earlier said he was the target of the attack. Israeli media said it was the military’s third attempt to kill him since last year’s war.

Senior Hezbollah official Mahmoud Qmati had earlier said that Israel’s strike crossed a “red line” and that the group’s leadership was considering whether it would respond.

“The strike on the southern suburbs today opens the door to an escalation of assaults all over Lebanon,” he said.

Tabatabai was born in 1968 in Beirut to a Lebanese mother and an Iranian father. He grew up in southern Lebanon and joined Hezbollah at the age of 12.

Funny, isn’t it? What made him a “Palestinian?”

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said the Israeli attack also wounded 28 people.

Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) reported that two missiles were fired at the apartment building on al-Arid Street in Haret Hreik, and significant damage was inflicted on cars and surrounding buildings.
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