IDF: All senior members of Hezbollah in Lebanon have been killed.
In recent days, the conflict between Israel and Lebanon has suddenly escalated, with Israel frequently launching pinpoint strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, targeting senior leaders of Hezbollah. How severe are the losses suffered by Hezbollah?
The Lebanese Hezbollah issued an obituary on the 1st, confirming that Sufiyan, the head of the Hezbollah Executive Committee, died in an Israeli airstrike, but did not disclose the time and place of Sufiyan's death. The day before, the Israeli military announced that it had carried out a precise airstrike on the Hezbollah intelligence headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut earlier this month, resulting in the deaths of dozens of Hezbollah members, including Sufiyan and Hazima, the commander of the Hezbollah intelligence headquarters. On the 1st, following the death of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, Sufiyan was considered Nasrallah's successor.
On a certain date, the Israeli Defense Forces released an image featuring a total of senior military leaders from Hezbollah in Lebanon. On the day the image was released, the IDF stated that they had confirmed the deaths of some of these individuals, while the whereabouts of others remained unknown. On a specific date, in the latest statement issued by the IDF, the final two individuals on the list, namely Hezbollah's senior leader Hashem Safieddine and the commander of the intelligence headquarters, Ali Hussein Khazma, were confirmed to have been killed. With this, the IDF confirmed that all senior Hezbollah leaders had been eliminated.
Timeline of Israeli Strikes on Hezbollah Leadership in Lebanon:
- On the specified date, Fuad Shukur, the military advisor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, was killed.
- On the specified date, Ibrahim Ajir, commander of the Radwan Forces, the elite unit of Hezbollah, along with several others including Ahmad Mahmud Wahib, were killed.
- On a certain date, Ibrahim al-Kubaisi, commander of the rocket and missile forces of Hezbollah, was killed.
- On the date, Mohammed Hussein al-Saour, commander of the drone unit of Hezbollah, Lebanon, was killed.
- On the date, Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, was killed in an airstrike, along with Ali Qarqoui, the commander of Hezbollah in the southern region of Lebanon.
- On the specified date, Ahmad Mustafa Hajj Ali, the commander of Hezbollah's armed forces in the Houla frontline in southern Lebanon, and Mohammad Ali Hamdan, the anti-tank unit commander in the Meiss ej-Jabal region, were killed.
- On the date, a commander of the Radwan Unit of Hezbollah was killed.
- On the specified date, Khadir Bakkar of Hezbollah was killed. The Israeli military claimed that he was the commander of Hezbollah's aerial combat forces in the area north of the Litani River, and had repeatedly commanded drone attacks on Israel.
- On [date], the Israeli military claimed to have killed Hassan Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, and Ali Hussein Nassif, the commander of the intelligence headquarters.