Israeli strike on Beirut kills Hezbollah commander

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An ******** air strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut has ******* a Hezbollah commander who was a leading figure in its rocket division, two security sources in Lebanon said, as fears of a full-fledged war in the Middle East mounts.

The sources identified the commander who was ******* on Tuesday as Ibrahim Qubaisi. The *******, in which six people were *******, dealt another ***** to the Iran-backed group which has faced a series of setbacks at the hands of ******* over the past week.

The relentless pressure on Hezbollah has increased fears that nearly a year of conflict will explode into another all-out war and destabilise the Middle East, where a conflict between ******* and Hezbollah’s ally ****** is already raging in Gaza.

******* struck the Hezbollah-controlled area of the Lebanese capital for a second consecutive day after mounting a new wave of air strikes on targets in Lebanon,

After nearly 12 months of war against the ************ militant group ****** in Gaza on its southern border, ******* is shifting its focus to the northern frontier, where Hezbollah has been ******* rockets into ******* in support of ******, which is also backed by Iran.

The health ministry gave an initial toll of six ***** and 15 wounded in the Beirut strike.

The ******** military carried out air strikes against Hezbollah on Monday which Lebanese authorities said ******* more than 500 people. The air strike hit a building in the usually busy Ghobeiry neighbourhood in Beirut. One of the security sources shared a photo showing damage to the top floor of a five-storey building.

*******’s military chief said earlier that attacks on Hezbollah would be accelerated.

“The situation requires continued, intense action in all arenas,” said Military Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi after holding a security assessment.

Lebanese authorities said 558 people had been *******, including 50 children and 94 women, in *******’s air strikes on Monday. A further 1835 were wounded, they said, and tens of thousands more have fled for safety.

The casualty tolls and the charge from the most powerful and advanced military in the Middle East has spread panic in Lebanon, which suffered from devastating destruction when ******* and Hezbollah fought in 2006.

“We are waiting for victory, **** willing, because as long as we have a neighbour like *******, we can’t sleep safely,” said Beirut resident Hassan Omar.

Afif Ibrahim, a taxi driver from southern Lebanon, was defiant.

“They (*******) want us (Lebanese) to kneel, but we kneel only to **** in our prayers; we bow our heads to no one but ****,” he said.

Calls for diplomacy are growing as the conflict worsens, with UN human rights chief Volker Turk urging all states and actors with influence to avert further escalation in Lebanon.

“I believe that we can still find a path forward to get de-escalation between ******* and across that northern border between ******* and Lebanon and bring about a diplomatic solution that allows people to return to their home,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told MSNBC.

The fighting has raised fears that the ******* States, *******’s close ally, and regional power Iran, which has proxies across the Middle East – Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthis and armed groups in Iraq – will be sucked into a wider war.

Hezbollah last week suffered heavy losses when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members exploded in the worst security breach in its history.

The operation was widely attributed to *******, which has a long history of sophisticated attacks on foreign soil. It has not confirmed or denied responsibility.

*******’s intelligence and technological prowess has given it a strong edge in both Lebanon and Gaza.

But Hezbollah has proven resilient during decades of hostilities with *******, challenging superior firepower.

The group, which was founded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in 1982 to counter an ******** invasion of Lebanon, is a more formidable ****** than ******.

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