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Fuad Shukr ‘Sayyid’ Muhsan has the blood of many Israelis on his hands. Tonight, we have shown that the blood of our people has a price, and that there is no place out of reach for our forces to this end.”
On X, Gallant wrote in English Shukr was one of a number of veteran Hezbollah officials who were among the founders of the group’s military wing,
said Nicholas Blanford, an expert on Hezbollah with the Atlantic Council think-tank They’ve always lived in the shadows,
he said of the group’s military leaders The safety and protection of our troops is really, really important to me. That's why, you know, you saw us take some measures to protect ourselves here,
I think, quite frankly, I don't see a return to where we were several months ago, not yet,
Austin told reporters as he departed the Philippines I think it's all connected."
Asked if the recent attacks on U.S. forces were connected to rising tensions between Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel, Austin said We are preventing terrorist attacks, and part of the prevention is to go after terrorists like Rantisi,
said Gideon Meir, deputy director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry Israel will regret this — revenge is coming,
Ismail Haniyeh told reporters at the hospital at the time The implications of all this are still difficult to assess at this point in time, but it is to be feared that all efforts to reach a hostage deal, which was supposedly on the verge of a breakthrough in recent weeks, are now a distant prospect for the time being,
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, an associate professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told DW It is too early to say what results this will bring but the consequences will be reverberating, for the worst,
All eyes were on Tehran and since the assassination happened on Iranian soil, Iran will be forced to come up with a reaction,
Petillo agreed ... she told DW The killing of Fouad Shukur, who was the number two leader means that Hezbollah is under enormous pressure to retaliate,
The fact that this highly symbolic meeting was chosen to eliminate Ismail Haniyeh shows that they [Israel] wanted to illustrate that Iran cannot protect even its own guests and that Israel's reach is beyond the country itself,
The military arm will gain much more support from many Palestinians,
By killing Haniyeh, Israel has wiped away Hamas' political leadership, which was the more moderate force within the movement,
Petillo added, pointing out Hamas will not be able to go back to business as usual,
It also puts Yahya Sinwar, the more extremist leader of Hamas' military wing, at the helm,
So far, Hezbollah had always made very clear that it would stop the strikes and tit-for-tat with Israel once a cease-fire is reached,
There are unconfirmed reports from Syria that Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Aerospace Forces of the IRGC, was killed in an attack near the Syrian capital Damascus."
According to journalist Levent Kamal We are eagerly looking forward to any opportunity for carrying out Operation True Promise 2.0, and this next operation will be much larger and greater in every aspect."