Israeli Strikes In Beirut Murdered 31; A Senior Hezbollah Commander Martyred

On Friday, the Zionist warplanes fired two missiles at a building near the Martyr Seyed Hadi Nasrallah highway in the Dahieh area south of Beirut.

During this attack, 15 commanders and senior members of Hezbollah were martyred, including Ibrahim Aqil known as Haj Tahsin, the senior military commander of Hezbollah. The United States had previously set a $7 million reward for providing any information about him.

In a statement claiming responsibility for the strike, the Israeli army said that the main target, Ibrahim Aqil, was the head of Hezbollah’s military operations, the acting commander of the group’s elite Radwan Force.

Ibrahim Aqil, known as Hajj Abdul Qader, was also the most senior military member of the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s top military body, after Israel’s assassination of Fuad Shukr in a strike in Beirut in July.

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, a total of 31 people, including three children and seven women, were martyred and 68 others were injured in this terrorist attack. The operation of Lebanese rescuers to remove the debris and try to find the missing continues.

The interesting thing to note was the presence of the US patrol and reconnaissance aircraft around Lebanon before the Zionist airstrike.

Investigations show that the American Poseidon P8 patrol and reconnaissance aircraft was patrolling the eastern sky of the Mediterranean Sea before the terrorist attack by the Israeli army in the Dahieh of Beirut.

A Zionist media published alleged detail of Israeli aggression in Dahieh Beirut:

“This afternoon, the information about presence of Ibrahim Aqil and senior Hezbollah officials in a secret apartment in the heart of Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut received. Despite the complexities of attacking an apartment, from the moment their information reached the Israeli Air Force, they quickly planned the attack. The entire event lasted only a few hours and was not an assassination that had been planned for a long time. In fact, this assassination was the ultimate use of an “operational opportunity”.

The report added that “the authorization of the attack to assassinate Ibrahim Aqil was immediately approved by the Chief of Staff of the Army, Herzi Halevi, who was visiting the northern front at the time. The Chief of Staff approved the attack and also communicated it to the political elite (Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the regime).

This attack was defined as “necessary opportunity for execution” and the political class approved it, and the attack was carried out minutes later. After the assassination, the security officials in Israel said: “Now Nasrallah does not have two of the most important people who were sitting next to him in every situation. When we talk about “a new phase in the war”, this is exactly what we mean. “Beirut used to be a red line, but now there is no red line.”

Hezbollah mourned Aqeel in an official statement, saying “one of its great leaders was martyred on the road to Al-Quds.” The statement also said the “great jihadist leader” had “joined the procession of his brothers, the great martyr leaders, after a blessed life full of jihad, work, wounds, sacrifices, dangers, challenges, achievements, and victories.”

The Israeli airstrike on Beirut came just a few days after another terrorist sabotage attacks in which pagers and wireless devices exploded across Lebanon, murdering at least 44 people and wounding more than 3,500 others.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah vowed retaliation in his latest speech.

Hezbollah and its allies in Lebanon have been launching near-daily attacks against the Israeli regime in support of the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on the Palestinian enclave last October. While Israel has so far limited its response to strikes, it appears to be heading to an all out war with Lebanon.

So far, the limited confrontation has resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as the deaths of at least 22 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 900 people have been killed, including 497 fighters of Hezbollah and over 150 civilians.