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Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah Killed in Israeli Strike

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01.10.2024

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Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, is notorious for carrying out outrageous and criminal murders of high-profile members of its opponents with impunity. For instance, on 31st July 2024, Israel killed Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh in a heinous attack in Tehran. This high-profile assassination campaign of its opponents is an old script that Israel has followed repeatedly in its deplorable history. It is a tactical tool employed by the Zionist state in waging a war of attrition against its enemies.

After recently degrading Hezbollah’s communication networks by launching a coordinated cyber-attack on its communication devices—pagers and walkie-talkies, Israel has been pursuing an offensive and escalatory military strategy to assassinate the group’s senior commanders. Hezbollah (the party of God) is a paramilitary Shia group based in Lebanon.

In the last couple of months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave orders to kill two senior commanders of Hezbollah including Ibrahim Aqil and Faud Shukr in his desperate attempt to change the balance of power in the region. Last Friday 27 September, Israeli forces crossed all red lines and assassinated the supreme leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. He was killed using bunker blast bombs in a series of coordinated airstrikes in the Dahiyah suburb of southern Beirut.

The casualties of the Israeli airstrike also included other Hezbollah members — senior commander Ali Karaki, and a deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Abbas Nilforoushan. These deadly strikes remind one of the atrocious Dahiya Doctrine—a strategy of disproportionate attacks on civilian targets to create deterrence—that Israel employed during the 1982 war.

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