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The Israeli military has confirmed that Friday’s airstrikes in Beirut resulted in the deaths of several top Hezbollah commanders, including the group’s long-time leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
This series of targeted operations, aimed at crippling Hezbollah’s military leadership, is said to have almost the entire chain of command of the Iranian-back outfit. On its social media platform X, IDF posted a picture of slain Hezbollah leaders saying, “We searched up “dismantled” on the internet, this is the picture that came up.”
Here is a list of some operations against Hezbollah commanders blamed on Israel.
Hassan Nasrallah
Hassan Nasrallah, the influential leader of Hezbollah for over three decades, was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday. Under his leadership, Hezbollah has evolved into a formidable military and political force in Lebanon, often clashing with Israel.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated that Nasrallah was eliminated during a strike targeting Hezbollah’s central command facility located beneath a residential building in Beirut on Friday.
Ali Karki
Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, and additional Hezbollah commanders were also killed in Friday’s airstrike alongside Nasrallah. The Israeli army said that it killed the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon in an air strike, along with his deputy and several other leaders of the Iran-backed outfit.
Muhammad Ali Ismail
Israeli fighter jets killed “Muhammad Ali Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon, and his deputy,” the military said in a statement on Telegram on Saturday, adding that “other Hezbollah commanders and terrorists were eliminated”.
The statement said Ismail was “responsible for many acts of terrorism…including rocket launches towards the territory of the State of Israel and the launch of a surface-to-surface missile towards the centre of the country last Wednesday”.
Ibrahim Muhammad Qabisi
The Israeli military said it also killed Ibrahim Muhammad Kabisi and “other senior officials in Hezbollah’s missile and rocket array”. Hezbollah has not confirmed or denied Israel’s announcement about the commanders.
Qabisi was the head of Hezbollah’s missile and rocket forces and was killed alongside other senior commanders during the recent airstrikes. The IDF claimed that Qabisi was responsible for orchestrating numerous attacks against Israel, including rocket launches across the border.
IBRAHIM QUBAISI
An airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sept. 24 killed Qubaisi, a commander and leading figure in Hezbollah’s rocket division, two security sources said.
IBRAHIM AQIL
Hezbollah’s operations commander Ibrahim Aqil, who serves on the group’s top military body was killed by an Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sept. 20. Aqil, who has also used the aliases Tahsin and Abdelqader, is a member of Hezbollah’s top military body, the Jihad Council.
The United States accuses him of a role in the Beirut truck bombings that struck the American embassy in April 1983, which killed 63 people, and a U.S. Marine barracks six months later that killed 241 people.
AHMED WAHBI
Ahmed Wahbi, a top commander who oversaw the military operations of the Radwan special forces in the Gaza war until early 2024, was killed in an Israel strike that targeted several top commanders in the Beirut suburbs on Sept. 20, including Ibrahim Aqil.
FUAD SHUKR
An Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital on July 30 killed Hezbollah’s top commander Fuad Shukr, identified by the Israeli military as the right-hand man of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Shukr was one of Hezbollah’s leading military figures since it was established by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards more than four decades ago. The United States imposed sanctions on Shukr in 2015 and accused him of playing a central role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 U.S. military personnel.
MOHAMMED NASSER
Mohammed Nasser was killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 3. Israel claimed responsibility, saying he headed a unit responsible for firing from southwestern Lebanon at Israel.
Nasser, a senior commander in Hezbollah, was responsible for a section of Hezbollah’s operations at the frontier, according to senior security sources in Lebanon.
TALEB ABDALLAH
Senior Hezbollah field commander Abdallah was killed on June 12 in a strike claimed by Israel, which said it had hit a command and control centre in southern Lebanon. Security sources in Lebanon said he was Hezbollah’s commander for the central region of the southern border strip and was of the same rank as Nasser. His killing prompted the group to fire a heavy barrage of rockets across the border at Israel.
(With agency inputs)
