Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “We will continue to attack Hezbollah. Anyone who has missiles in his living room and rockets in his garage will not have a home.” And Israel has attacked strongly. More than 550 people have been killed in Israel’s recent attack against Hezbollah. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is left alone at the top.
The invasion of Lebanon begins Explosion of thousands of pagers On September 17 and 18, radio equipment used by members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah was discovered. Then on September 19, Israel launched an airstrike against Hezbollah while Nasrallah was giving a speech. The message was clear.
Three top Hezbollah leaders have been killed within a week.
Ibrahim Kubaisi, the head of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile division, was killed on September 24. Ali Karaki, a member of Hezbollah’s Jihadist Council, was killed on September 23. Hezbollah operations chief Ibrahim Aqeel assassinated On 20th September.
This is a list of top Hezbollah commanders who have been killed in a span of seven days. In addition, Fuad Shukri, one of Hezbollah’s most senior commanders, was also killed just two months ago. Shukri’s killing was a major blow to Hezbollah.
After the death of many Hezbollah commanders, Hezbollah chief Nasrallah will have to proceed cautiously in difficult circumstances. Despite all the support he is getting from Iran, he must also be feeling lonely.
Hezbollah has always survived without its top leadersDue to its strong organisational structure and adaptability, the party is seen as a strong organisation. But with the death of many of its top leaders, and that too in a very short span of time, its immediate future is in question.
With the deaths of Aqil, Karaki and Shukr in July, all top Hezbollah leaders after Nasrallah have been eliminated.
Some experts are also taking to social media to discuss the plight of the Hezbollah chief.
All the Hezbollah leaders eliminated by Israel were important to the Shia organization. This is why Nasrallah must be feeling lonely.
Ibrahim Qubaisi: Head of the Rocket and Missile Division
Ibrahim Qubaisi’s death was confirmed by Hezbollah on Telegram on 25 September, just hours after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said it had “eliminated” him.
His killing was part of Israel’s air strikes on Lebanon, where it attacked the southern suburbs of Beirut, with Qubaisi being killed in an airstrike on Ghobeiri, a six-story residential building in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
He was the head of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile division.
The IDF said, “For the past several years and during the war, he was responsible for launches on the Israeli home front. Qubaisi was a central source of knowledge in the field of missiles, and was close to Hezbollah’s senior military leadership.”
Israel says Qubaisi joined Hezbollah in the 1980s and held a number of key positions, including leading the Badr Regional Division. The IDF also claims Qubaisi masterminded a 2000 kidnapping attack at Mount Dov that led to the deaths of three Israeli soldiers, whose bodies were returned in 2004.
Qubaisi was reporting directly to Hezbollah chief Nasrallah.
Ali Karaki: Member of Hezbollah’s top military unit
On September 23, airstrikes targeted Hezbollah’s Southern Front commander Ali Karaki. He was also a member of Hezbollah’s top military body, the Jihad Council.
Hezbollah has not confirmed that Karaki has been killed. A security source told Reuters that Karaki’s future was not yet clear.
If confirmed, Karaki’s death would be a major blow as he managed Hezbollah’s forces on the Israel-Lebanon border. His troops would serve as the first line of defense against any Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon, reports the New York Times.
Karaki was also on the US financial sanctions list.
Ibrahim Aqeel: Senior member of the elite Radwan Force
Days after the pager attacks in Lebanon, Israel killed Ibrahim Aqeel, a senior leader in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force.
“Ibrahim Aqeel has the blood of many innocent people on his hands – Israelis, Americans, French, Lebanese and many others,” the IDF said.
Aqeel, who joined Hezbollah in the 1980s, was second-in-command after the assassination of Fuad Shukr.
He was wanted by the United States for his role in the 1983 bombing of the American embassy in Beirut, and the state had placed a $7 million bounty on him. US State Department.
Hezbollah confirmed Aqeel’s death and called him “one of the great jihadist leaders”, adding, “Jerusalem was always in his heart, mind and thoughts day and night. Jerusalem was the passion of his soul and praying in its mosque was his greatest dream.”
Fuad Shukr: Nasrallah’s right-hand man killed in July
Fuad Shukr was Hezbollah’s second-in-command and was killed in Beirut in July. According to media reports, Shukr had received a phone call in which he was asked to shift from his second-floor office to his seventh-floor house.
He was one of the founding members of Hezbollah during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. He was considered Nasrallah’s right-hand man.
Shuker was also wanted by the US State Department.
With the deaths of Aqil, Karaki and Shukr in July, Hezbollah’s top leaders after Nasrallah have also been killed.
Hezbollah’s Nasrallah is now left alone
Questions are being raised about Hezbollah’s existence after repeated attacks on its bases and the death of many of its top leaders. For Nasrallah, who receives support and advice from Iran, the elimination of Hezbollah leaders may have left him alone.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said the IDF was “destroying” the infrastructure Hezbollah had built over two decades with its strikes, The Times of Israel reported.
He also highlighted the fact that now “Nasrallah is left alone”.
“Over the past few days we have been demolishing the construction built by Hezbollah over 20 years. Nasrallah is in command alone, entire units of the Radwan Force have been decommissioned and thousands of rockets have been destroyed,” Galant’s office quoted him as saying.
What does this mean for Israel and Hezbollah?
And what does Nasrallah’s isolation mean for Israel and Hezbollah?
“Israel needs to take an aggressive stance, [Hassan] “Nasrallah is almost alone,” Colonel Kobi Marom (retired) said, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Colonel Marom, an expert on the northern region, called on Israel to take decisive action and said Hezbollah would not negotiate unless its power centers were targeted.
“This is a rare, once-in-a-generation opportunity; it’s time to make bold decisions,” he said.
With Hezbollah’s top leaders gone and Nasrallah left alone at the helm, this could be a time when Israel could gain a strategic advantage. However, it must be kept in mind that Hezbollah can be crippled, but it is almost impossible to destroy it.
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