ALBAWABA - Israel declared the "Shield and Arrow" operation against Hamas positions shortly after the surprise October 7 attack by the Hamas military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed and about 240 hostages were taken back to Gaza.
Hezbollah, the Lebanese movement, announced joining the war and announced the start of rocket attacks targeting Israel in response to Tel Aviv's aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Israel has also been targeting Hezbollah positions across Lebanon, especially in the south. However, on Sept. 23, Israel announced more intense strikes on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon asking people to "move out".
In the past few days, Israel has killed many high-ranking figures of the Iranian-backed group with Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, at the top of the list.
List of Hezbollah's high-ranking figures killed by Israel
1. Hassan Nasrallah
Hassan Nasrallah, the number 1 figure in Hezbollah, was killed while he was inside the Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut's southern suburb in an Israeli airstrike on Sept. 27. Israel used 80 MK bombs to target six buildings in Beirut and announced the death of Nasrallah on Sept. 28.
Nasrallah served as the secretary-general of Hezbollah from February 1992 until his assassination in September 2024.
2. Fuad Shukr
Fuad Shukr doubted as "Nasrallah’s right-hand man". He was a high-ranking Hezbollah commander and the chief military advisor for the movement. The US imposed sanctions on him in 2015 allegedly for playing a role in the 1983 bombing of the American Marine barracks in Beirut.
Shukr was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital on July 30, a day before the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Hanyiehin in Iran's capital Tehran.
3. Ibrahim Aqil
Hezbollah’s operations commander and top military body, Ibrahim Aqil, was also targeted by Israel on Sept. 20 when Israeli Air Forces carried out a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Aqil was accused by the US of being involved in two deadly bombings in Lebanon that caused the death of hundreds.
4. Ali Karaki
Hezbollah confirmed the death of its senior commander, Ali Karaki, in the Israeli airstrike on Sept. 27 that killed leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Ali Karaki is the commander of the Southern Front and the third-highest official in command in the Lebanese Group.
5. Nabil Kaouk
Nabil Kaouk is the commander of Hezbollah's "preventive security unit". Israel announced the killing of Kaouk after multiple airstrikes in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah positions on Sept. 29.
Kaouk was killed a day after the announcement by Israel and Hezbollah that Hassan Nasrallah was killed in the strike on Beirut's southern suburb on Sept. 28.
6. Ahmed Wahbi
Ahmed Wahbi was in charge of the military operations of the Radwan special forces (a special operation forces unit of Hezbollah) in the Gaza war. The Hezbollah figure was killed in the same Israel attack that targeted several top commanders including Ibrahim Aqil on Sept. 20.
7. Ibrahim Qubaisi
He was a military commander and leading figure in Hezbollah’s rocket division. According to sources, Ibrahim Qubaisi was killed in an Israeli attack on Beirut's southern suburbs on Sept. 24, a day after Tel Aviv announced intensified attacks against the Lebanese group.
8. Muhammed Nasser
Muhammed Nasser, commonly known as Hajj Abu Nimah, the commander of the Aziz Unit, responsible for the Hezbollah operations at the frontier with Israel, was killed on July 3 in Tyre, Lebanon.
Al-Jazeera reported that the Hezbollah commander was in charge of a unit responsible for launching attacks from southwestern Lebanon at Tel Aviv.
9. Taleb Abdallah
Abdullah is a senior Hezbollah figure who was in charge of the group's Nasr Unit, in the Hezbollah Southern Front. Israel accused him of "planning, advancing and carrying out a large number of attacks against Israeli civilians."
He was targeted and killed on June 12 by the Israeli army in Lebanon.
