The body of one of Hezbollah’s most senior commanders has been found in rubble in the southern Beirut suburb attacked by Israel, two Lebanese security sources said, Reuters reports.
Hezbollah previously refused to confirm Israel’s claim that it had killed Fuad Shukr, described as ‘the right-hand man’ of their leader Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday night.
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) blamed him for an attack on Saturday that left 12 children and teenagers dead in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights – Hezbollah denied involvement.
The head of Hezbollah’s operations centre had earlier claimed Shukr survived the attack but was critically injured.
The Lebanese health ministry said two children and two women had been killed and 74 people injured in Beirut.
In a further development raising concerns of an all-out war in the region, Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran early on Wednesday morning, an attack that drew threats of revenge on Israel.
Although the attack was widely assumed to have been carried out by Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government made no claim of responsibility and said it would make no comment on the killing.
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Haniyeh had been the face of Hamas’ international diplomacy as it fought Israel’s offensive in Gaza, a war triggered by the militant group’s massacre of 1,200 people in southern Israel on 7 October.
He had been taking part in indirect talks to negotiate a ceasefire in the besieged enclave, where, according to Gaza health officials, more than 39,400 people have been killed in the nearly 10 months of war.
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