Double attack in the Middle East during the night: an Israeli raid on Beirut hit the Hezbollah's number 2while a Tehran was Hamas political leader killed. Three days after the massacre of Druze children in Majdal Shams, in the northern Golan, the Israeli retaliation against Hezbollah. A powerful explosion hit the stronghold of pro-Iranian Shiite militiamen in the Da'aheh neighborhood in the evening Beirut. The attack, immediately confirmed by the Israeli army, aimed at Hezbollah's Shura Council as well as the operations room of the military arm of the Party of God and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards: the target of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) was Fuad Shukr, aka Hajj Mohsin, considered by Israel “responsible for the murder of the children of Majdal Shams and numerous other Israeli civilians”.
The target, the IDF announced a few hours later, had been neutralized. Thank you He is the most senior Hezbollah commander killed by Israel, the army said in a statement, identifying him as Hassan Nasrallah's right-hand man and adding that it was “responsible for most of Hezbollah's most advanced weaponry, including precision-guided missiles, cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, long-range rockets and drones,” as well as “the buildup of forces, and the carrying out of terrorist attacks against the State of Israel.”
Also other Arab media, from al Arabya to Saudi al Adht, passing through Lebanese networks, citing local security sources after confirming the death of the high Shiite commander, while Hezbollah on the contrary he made it known that the Israeli coup failed. As for the budget of victims, which continued to grow, according to the Lebanese government is at least 3 dead and 74 injured: witnesses spoke of an eight-storey building hit, with three floors collapsed. The IDF operation, of which the United States was informed in time, came after days of sky-high tension, in the Middle East as well as in international chancelleries. Diplomacies, led by Washington, worked to obtain moderation on both sides. Hezbollah publicly rejected the request. Meanwhile, a senior Israeli official said “no further military activity should be expected at this time.”
In the evening the heads of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon and the UN special coordinator Jeanine Hannis-Plasschaert spoke with both Lebanon and Israel in an attempt to prevent the outbreak of all-out war, but both Beirut and Tehran they spoke of "flagrant aggression" by the Jewish state, as did Moscow. From the United States, however, Kamala Harris underlined that the Jewish state "has the right to defend itself from terrorist organizations, such as Hezbollah". While adding that we "still need to work on a diplomatic solution to put an end to these attacks".
Hamas political leader killed in Israeli raid on Tehran
A few hours later, he was also killed political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, from a Israeli raid on Tehran. Confirming the killing of its leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Hamas points the finger at Israel by speaking of a "Zionist attack". “Hamas declares to the great Palestinian people, to the people of the Arab and Islamic nations and to all the free peoples of the world, brother leader Ismail Haniyeh is a martyr,” the statement read. While in another communication the Palestinian group quoted Haniyeh to say that the Palestinian cause has "costs" and "we are ready for these costs: martyrdom for the good of Palestine, for the good of Almighty God and for the good of dignity of this nation." “The assassination of our leader, Ismail Haniyeh, is a cowardly act and it will not go unanswered,” Hamas political bureau member Musa Abu Marzuk said in a statement.
Ismail Haniyeh, had been head of the political bureau of Hamas since 2017, and was prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority and head of the administration of the Gaza Strip. He was 62 years old and had been living in Doha, Qatar (which had given him political asylum) since 2019, and in recent days he was in Tehran to participate in the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
