The Hezbollah commanders killed in Israeli strikes

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The Hezbollah commanders ******* in ******** strikes

******* has ******* Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah and several of its top commanders in a series of strikes targeting the Iran-backed movement’s top brass, dealing a major ***** to the Shiite movement.

Here is what we know about the commanders slain over the past year.

– Nasrallah: Hezbollah chief –

On Friday, an ******** air strike on Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold ******* Hassan Nasrallah, who had led the group for 32 years.

Hezbollah confirmed his ****** a day later.

Despite years of living in hiding to evade **************, the 64-year-old Nasrallah wielded great power in Lebanon.

He had cult-like following among his Shiite ******* supporters, despite rarely appearing in public.

“The point of security measures is that movement be kept secret, but that doesn’t stop me from moving around and seeing what is happening,” Nasrallah told Lebanon’s pro-Hezbollah Al-Akhbar newspaper in a 2004 interview.

Nasrallah became Hezbollah’s secretary-general in 1992, aged 32, after an ******** helicopter gunship ******* his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi.

******* said on Saturday that Nasrallah was one of its “greatest enemies”, and that his ****** made the world “a safer place”.

– Shukr: right-hand man –

A strike on July 30 ******* Fuad Shukr, one of Hezbollah’s top military commanders.

Shukr, in his early 60s, played a key role in cross-border drone and rocket attacks on ******** forces, according to a source close to Hezbollah.

The two sides have traded near-daily ***** across the frontier since Hezbollah ally ****** launched an unprecedented ******* on ******* on October 7.

Shukr helped found Hezbollah during Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war and became a key adviser to Nasrallah.

Shukr was Hezbollah’s most senior military commander, and the leader said he had been in daily contact with him since October.

******* blamed Shukr for a July rocket ******* on the ********-annexed Golan Heights that ******* 12 children in a Druze ***** town. Hezbollah denied responsibility.

In 2017, the US Treasury offered a $5 million reward for information on Shukr, saying he had “a central role” in the deadly 1983 ******** of the US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.

– Aqil: US bounty –

A strike on September 20 ******* Ibrahim Aqil, head of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, along with 15 other commanders.

Lebanese officials said the ******* ******* 55 people, many of them civilians.

A source close to Hezbollah described Aqil as the second-in-command in the group’s forces after Shukr.

The Radwan Force is Hezbollah’s most formidable offensive unit and its fighters are trained in cross-border infiltration, a source close to the group told AFP.

The ******* States said Aqil was a member of Hezbollah’s ****** Council, the movement’s highest military body.

The US Treasury said he was a “principal member” of the Islamic ****** Organisation — a Hezbollah-linked group behind the 1983 ******** of the US embassy in Beirut that ******* 63 people and an ******* on the US Marine Corps barracks in the Lebanese capital the same year that ******* 241 US soldiers.

– Ali Karake –

Considered Hezbollah’s number three military commander, Karake was ******* in the same September 27 strike that claimed Nasrallah’s life, according to the group.

Karake was a member of the ****** Council, Hezbollah’s supreme command, and served as the commander of the southern front. He survived several ************** attempts.

The ******** army said he was a member of Nasrallah’s inner circle.

– Kobeissi: missiles expert –

On September 25, a strike ******* Ibrahim Mohammed Kobeissi, who commanded several military units including a guided missiles unit.

“Kobeissi was an important source of knowledge in the field of missiles and had close ties with senior Hezbollah military leaders,” the ******** military said.

Kobeissi joined Hezbollah in 1982 and rose through its ranks.

One of the units he led was tasked with manning operations in southern Lebanon, bordering *******.

– Srur: drone chief –

A strike on September 26 ******* Srur, the head of Hezbollah’s drone unit since 2020.

Srur studied mathematics and was one of several senior advisers Hezbollah sent to Yemen to train the country’s Huthi rebels, who are also backed by Iran, a source close to Hezbollah said.

He had also played a significant role in Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria’s civil war from 2013, supporting President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

– Nabil Qaouq –

A prominent figure in Hezbollah since the 1980s, Qaouq held the position of deputy head of Hezbollah’s central council when he was ******* in an air strike on September 28 in a Beirut suburb.

He had served as Hezbollah’s military commander in southern Lebanon.

– Wissam Tawil –

Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah’s Al-Radwan unit, was ******* in an ******** air strike in January on his vehicle in southern Lebanon, along with two other regional commanders — Mohammed Nasser and Taleb Abdallah.

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