Hezbollah has announced the death of top military leaders in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon’s capital.
The group reported that Fuad Shukr’s remains were discovered in the debris of a structure hit by the airstrike on Tuesday.
Hossein Salami, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, announced that IRGC adviser Milad Beidi, who was killed in a separate Israeli strike in Beirut’s suburbs on the same day.
Salami highlighted that Beidi’s death would motivate the fervent youth of today and tomorrow and escalate the “fire of anger and revenge” against Israel, according to Iran’s official IRNA news agency.
Previously, the Israeli military had identified Shukr as the focus of a targeted operation, stating the airstrike was retaliation for a rocket assault from Saturday that resulted in 12 deaths in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, an attack they attribute to Shukr’s planning.
Shukr, believed to be in his early sixties, is thought to be a primary military adviser to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The Israeli military also claimed to have killed Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif in its air raid on Gaza’s Khan Younis.
Lebanon’s representative to the UN has claimed that “Israel is trying to drag the region into a regional war with catastrophic consequences.”
This statement followed the assassination of Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr and Hamas commander Ismail Haniyeh.
During an emergency session of the Council, the representative emphasized that “the Israeli attack on the Beirut suburb targeted a residential area,” noting that “this assault represents a dangerous escalation.”
He added: “It is ironic that the killer of thousands of children in Gaza is lamenting the children of Majdal Shams.”
On Tuesday, the Israeli military announced it had carried out a “precise” strike in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, which resulted in the death of a Hezbollah commander responsible for “the killing of children in Majdal Shams and many Israeli citizens.”
The attack, which targeted a building in the southern suburb of Beirut, resulted in four deaths and approximately 80 injuries.
