The latest episode in the series of liquidating the leadership pyramid in Hezbollah came on Monday when the Israeli army carried out a strike targeting the party’s third-in-command and commander of the southern front, Ali al-Karaki.
And the assassination came Crane A few days after the airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut, which led to the killing of a number of leaders of Hezbollah’s Radwan military force.
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The Israeli army revealed in a statement on Saturday: “Underground and in the heart of Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut: The army eliminated the leadership pyramid.”The power of contentment“In the terrorist Hezbollah.”
He continued: “In a precise raid on Friday evening, Air Force warplanes attacked, under intelligence guidance from the Intelligence Service, and eliminated the head of the operations system and commander of the terrorist Hezbollah’s “Radwan Force”, Ibrahim Aqil, during a meeting with leaders in the Radwan Force in the southern suburb.”
He explained: “In addition to the so-called Ibrahim Aqil, 15 other Hezbollah terrorists were eliminated in the raid, including senior leaders in the leadership of the Radwan Force.”
Hezbollah announced Friday night that 15 of its members were killed by Israeli forces, but did not elaborate on the attack.
Sky News Arabia’s Israeli affairs editor, Nidal Kanaaneh, said: “What Israel is doing is liquidating the entire Hezbollah General Staff. It has liquidated all of the first-tier leadership, and there are many second-tier leaders who have been liquidated, such as the commander of the Radwan Unit, Ibrahim Aqil. Thus, Israel is beginning to target the Hezbollah pyramid from the top.”
Do the assassinations reach Nasrallah?
Kanana added that “almost all that remains in the top leadership of Hezbollah is Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. The editor of Israeli affairs did not rule out that the series of assassinations could reach Hassan Nasrallah, in light of Israel’s expression more than once of its intention to eliminate him, which explains the disappearance of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah since the 2006 war.”
He added, “Israel Now it shows a decisive intelligence superiority over Hezbollah. On the other hand, the secret of this security laxity among Hezbollah’s leaders is not understood? (…) A person of the level of Ali Karaki, who is responsible for the southern front, which is the most important front now, has seen many assassinations of leaders he knows and sits with almost daily. Now the last major leader in Hezbollah is being assassinated, and Nasrallah is in an unenviable position.”
