Hezbollah Operations Commander Reportedly Targeted in “Decapitation Strike” in Beirut
Besides the targeted strikes to take out the top Hezbollah commander, the IDF was destroying the terrorist infrastructure in the southern Beirut jihadist bastion of Dahieh.
Israel targeted the top Hamas terror commander in a Beirut airstrike, Arab and Israeli media reports claim Saturday.
The strike on Friday night was aimed at eliminating Muhammad Haydar, the head of Hezbollah’s overall terrorist operation. “Israel targeted the head of Hezbollah’s operations department, Muhammad Haydar, in a Friday night airstrike on Beirut,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
🚨UPDATE:
The target of the overnight Israeli airstrike in Beirut is Muhammad Haydar, the Saudi al-Arabiya outlet reports.Haydar is a member of Hezbollah's Jihad Council, the terror group's top military body. His exact position in the terror group these days is unclear. pic.twitter.com/VUYX4dleid
— Yossi BenYakar (@YossiBenYakar) November 23, 2024
Haydar is the most significant Hezbollah terrorist to be targeted by Israel since terror chief Hassan Nasrallah and senior commanders were eliminated in late September. “Haydar, who is also referred to by his alias ‘Abu Ali,’ is (…) considered to be Hezbollah’s most senior remaining figure after Israel eliminated the terror organization’s leaders,” the newspaper added.
The Israeli news website YNET reported:
The IDF strike on Beirut early on Saturday targeted Muhammad Haydar, Hezbollah’s chief of operations, Sky News Arabic reported citing Israeli officials. Haydar, a former member of parliament, was a close advisor to slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated in an attack on the Dahieh, Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut in September.
The IDF considered him chief of the terror group’s military after a string of assassinations of top Hezbollah commanders. He has been leading the organization in recent months and sources tod the Saudi Arabia Al Hadath channel that he was the strategic – security brain behind Hezbollah’s war with Israel.
According to reports in Lebanon, the military used bunker busting bombs in the strike that brought down an 8-storey building and created a crater. At least 11 people were killed and more wounded but Lebanese health officials said they expected the death toll to rise because teams were struggling to pull survivors from the rubble.
The strike came without warning, as was the practice of the IDF, in the pre-dawn hours, while at the same time, Hezbollah fired 5 rockets at Haifa and its surrounding areas.
🚨BREAKING: On reports in Lebanon, the Israeli Air Force eliminated the head of Hezbollah's operations department – Muhammad Haidar. pic.twitter.com/Qtoq526lqz
— נועה מגיד | Noa magid (@NoaMagid) November 23, 2024
With Nasrallah’s replacement, 71-year-old Islamic cleric Naim Qassem, apparently in hiding, Haydar has been trying to fill the terror chief’s shoes.”Haydar is a member of Hezbollah’s top military body, the Jihad Council,” The Times of Israel reported. “Haydar and another top Hezbollah commander, Haytham Ali Tabataba’i, have been Hezbollah’s de-facto military leaders since Israel killed the terror group’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, along with most of the group’s top military brass in a wave of recent strikes.”
The reported airstrike to take out Hezbollah operations chief comes after Israel in mid-November killed the terror group’s propaganda chief, Mohammad Afif, in a similar strike. Afif took responsibility for the October 18 drone strikes at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home.
IDF hits Hezbollah terror stronghold in southern Beirut
Besides the targeted strikes to take out the top Hezbollah commander, the IDF was destroying the terrorist infrastructure in the southern Beirut jihadist bastion of Dahieh. Israeli fighter jets carried out “additional intelligence-based strikes on Hezbollah terrorist targets in the Dahieh, a key Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut,” the Israel Defense Force (IDF) said in a statement Saturday.
“The targets included several Hezbollah command centers, and additional terrorist infrastructure. Hezbollah deliberately embedded its infrastructure in these civilian areas, using the Lebanese civilian population as a human shield,” the IDF said. “Prior to the strikes, numerous steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including by collecting prior intelligence, leveraging aerial surveillance, and issuing advance warnings to the civilian population in the area.”
⭕️DISMANTLED: Iranian-Made Weapons Aimed Toward Israelis
Our troops located and seized an Iranian-manufactured cannon, rocket launchers, and rockets aimed toward Israel in a Hezbollah launch site this past week. pic.twitter.com/QTsxwDTtCX
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 23, 2024
“The strikes were directed toward Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure and are part of the IDF’s ongoing efforts to degrade Hezbollah’s capability to carry out terrorist attacks against Israel and to dismantle the weapons production and storage facilities that Hezbollah established over the years in the Dahieh area,” the military disclosed.
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From looking at the photo of the strike on the Hezbollah commander, he was not merely decapitated, but deconstructed.
More like “castration strike”.
After October 7, there was a progressive reduction in the number of rockets that Hamas fired at Israel. Conclusion: IDF destroyed much to most of Hamas’s rocket supply.
I believe that, even with all the Israeli destruction of Hezbollah armaments, there has not been much of a corresponding reduction in daily Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel. Which indicates that Hezbollah still has a substantial number of rockets and launchers remaining.
No ceasefire until Hezbollah’s no longer has the rockets to fire at Israel in the usual 100 per day rate.
Has the IDF been able to stop armaments coming in from Syria?
In 2006, the IDF destroyed a substantial proportion of buildings in the Hezbollah areas of Beirut. I get the impression that in 2006, the IDF engaged in massive destruction in Hezbollah areas of Beirut, as opposed to the targeted destruction in 2024 of buildings containing or sheltering Hezbollah armaments and/or operatives. Is this supposition correct?
Iran’s islamic Revolution took place 1979, 45 years ago
Iran has been committed to spreading its revolution since then, and it also has been openly committed to destroying America and Israel during this time.
My question is:
Has life improved for anybody as a result of the 1979 revolution?
In Iran?
In Syria? In lebanon ? In Yemen? In gaza?
I’’m being sincere: Does anybody know of any individual, or any group of individuals, for whom the 1979 revolution was a positive?
Why doesn’t anybody ever even discuss these things on tv?
🤷♂️ 🤷♂️ 🤷♂️ 🤷♂️ 🤷♂️ 🤷♂️ 🤷♂️
Well, a number of individuals in the upper echelons of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthi leadership have been living large thanks to the kindness and generosity of those lovable mullahs. Sad to say, many of them are recently deceased.
Boo. Hoo, Hoo,
👍.
Meanwhile 150 or more rockets were fired out of Lebanon today into central Israel. Several people have been working in a number of cities. Apartment buildings were destroyed. But US envoy Hochstein assured us that Lebanon was ready to make a deal. And if you believe him, I have a cackling soon-to-be former vice president to sell you.
The IDF should collectively be awarded a Nobel peace prize for “reducing standing armies” … and then some.
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