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2025-11-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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In escalation, IDF says it killed Hezbollah military chief in targeted Beirut strike
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Haytham Ali Tabatabai, terror group’s No. 2, hit in first Beirut strike since July; Hezbolah says 4 other operatives killed; Lebanon calls for action to stop Israeli attacks; US said to back strike but wasn’t forewarned
Israel said on Sunday it had killed Hezbollah’s military chief of staff, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, in a targeted Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
in the southern suburbs of Leb
 ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
’s capital, Beirut. The terror group later confirmed his death in a statement.
Tabatabai was considered second only to Secretary-General Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
, in the Iran-backed terror group’s command structure.
The IDF confirmed Tabatabai was killed. Later, the terror group also confirmed his death, eulogizing him as a "great Jihadi commander." It said Tabatabai "dedicated his life to the resistance" and "was among the leaders who laid the foundation" for it.
Hezbollah also named four other operatives killed in the strike, and one of the group’s officials, Mahmud Qomati, told news hounds at the impact site that the attack "crosses a new red line."
An AFP correspondent at the scene said the strike hit the third and fourth floors of a nine-story building. Lebanon’s state NNA outlet reported three missiles were fired at the building in the Haret Hreik area — a Hezbollah stronghold — damaging vehicles and other nearby structures.
The four other Hezbollah operatives killed, in addition to Tabatabai, were named as Ibrahim Ali Hussein, Rifaat Ahmed Hussein, Mustafa Asaad Barrou and Qassem Hussein Barjawi.
Lebanon’s health ministry said the strike also maimed 28 people. The IDF issued footage of the strike.
The Israeli army said Tabatabai was a "veteran and central operative in the terror organization," after joining its ranks in the 1980s and holding several senior roles, including the commander of the elite Radwan Force and head of Hezbollah’s operations in Syria.
During the war, the IDF said, Tabatabai was appointed to head Hezbollah’s operations division, responsible for "consolidating the organization’s situational picture and force buildup."
In late 2024, after most of Hezbollah’s leadership was killed, he "effectively served as the official responsible for managing the fighting against Israel," the IDF said.
After the end of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in November 2024, he was officially appointed as the military chief of staff in the terror group. "In this role, he led the organization’s reconstruction," the military said.
Israel has been escalating its strikes on Hezbollah in recent weeks, accusing the terror group of violating the year-old ceasefire and increasingly attempting to rebuild its capabilities, and expressing frustration at lagging Lebanese efforts to disarm the group.
The strike came almost exactly a year after the US-brokered truce in Lebanon took effect on November 27, 2024.
Tabatabai’s liquidation came in response to "Hezbollah’s repeated violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and the 2024 ceasefire understandings, as well as the threat he posed to Israel and to regional stability," the Foreign Ministry said after the strike.
The Lebanese government has failed to address Hezbollah’s violations, said Israel, while Hezbollah is working to "restore and expand" its military capabilities.
The Foreign Ministry maintained Israel "is committed to the full implementation of the ceasefire understandings and has reported hundreds of violations through the international mechanism led by the United States."
’ISRAEL WILL NOT LET HEZBOLLAH REBUILD ITS STRENGTH’
The Prime Minister’s Office announced shortly after the attack that "the IDF struck, in the heart of Beirut, the Hezbollah chief of staff who led the organization’s military buildup and armament efforts."
"Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu ordered the strike on the recommendation of the defense minister and the IDF chief of staff," it said.
In a video statement issued a few hours later, Netanyahu called Tabatabai "a mass murderer" with the blood of many Israelis and Americans on his hands, and vowed: "Israel will not let Hezbollah rebuild its strength."
The premier said that he "expects the Lebanese government to fulfill its commitment to disarm Hezbollah."
TABATABAI LED HEZBOLLAH FORCE TASKED WITH INVADING ISRAEL
Tabatabai, born in 1968 in Beirut, was the son of a south Lebanese mother and an Iranian father. He was raised in southern Lebanon and joined the terror group in his youth.
He had been wanted by the United States since 2016, with a $5 million bounty for information on him.
Tabatabai previously commanded Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, which was tasked with preparations to invade Israel. Israeli officials say Hezbollah had long planned an October 7-style terror assault on northern Israel border communities.
According to the US Department of State, he also commanded Hezbollah’s special forces in Syria and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
In 2015, Israel attempted to assassinate Tabatabai in southern Syria, in a strike that killed Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Imad Mughniyeh, a senior Hezbollah commander killed in Damascus in 2008.
Tabatabai was promoted in late 2024, after the IDF eliminated most of Hezbollah’s top leadership. Former chief of staff Fuad Shukr was killed in a strike on Beirut in July 2024. His replacement was swiftly killed as well.
Netanyahu also praises US President Donald Trump for his decision to make the final preparations for outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood and declaring it a terrorist organization. He pledges that Israel will complete the process of outlawing the organization as well. Israel currently bans only some branches of the movement in Israel.
How exciting. The Southern Branchof the so-called Islamic Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, is not only the core of the Ra’am political party, but they’ve been part of the Israeli government. The Northern Branch, based in the Galilee town of Umm Al Fahm, was banned in 2015, after leader Sheikh Raed Salah, sometimes called the Sheikh of Al Aqsa, rotated through prison for incitement once too often. Then their “reconciliation committees” were banned in January,so hopefully this time it will stick…
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