Ibrahim Qubaisi, the leader of Hezbollah, is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.The Israeli military said on Tuesday that Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi, the commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile force, had been killed in an airstrike in Beirut.According to a statement from the military, Qubaisi was hit along with other central commanders of Hezbollah’s missile and rocket force.It also said that he joined Hezbollah in the 1980s, rising to the rank of several key military positions and overseeing the planning and execution of numerous attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.According to the military, “Qubaisi was responsible for launching missiles toward Israeli civilians over the years and during the war.” He also had close ties to senior military figures in Hezbollah and was a significant source of knowledge in the field of missiles.
Ahead of a full-scale conflict in the Middle East, two security sources in Lebanon had earlier reported that an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday killed a Hezbollah commander who was a key figure in the organization’s rocket division in the southern suburbs of Beirut.The sources claim that the commander who was slain was Ibrahim Qubaisi. Six people were killed in the attack, which was another blow to the Iran-backed group that has been losing ground to Israel for the past week.Fears that the nearly year-long conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, which is already raging with no end in sight, will blow up and destabilize the oil-producing Middle East have grown as a result of the pressure on Hezbollah.Visit this page for the most recent information on the Israel-Palestine conflict.Israel launched a fresh round of airstrikes on targets in Lebanon before targeting the Hezbollah-controlled portion of the Lebanese capital for a second day in a row. Earlier on Tuesday, Hezbollah claimed to have launched rockets into northern Israel.Following almost a year of fighting the Iranian-backed Palestinian militant organization Hamas in Gaza, Israel is now turning its attention to the country’s northern border, where Hezbollah has been launching rockets into Israel to support the latter group.Six people were confirmed dead and fifteen injured in the Beirut attack, which targeted a building in the normally bustling Ghobeiry neighborhood, according to the Lebanese health ministry. One of the security sources shared a photo of the damaged top floor of the five-story building.Monday’s airstrikes by the Israeli military against Hezbollah, according to Lebanese authorities, killed over 500 people, making it the deadliest day in decades for the nation.A protracted conflict is expected as the Israeli government has declared that securing the northern border and repatriating its citizens are its top priorities, and Hezbollah has vowed to hold out until a ceasefire is achieved in Gaza.After conducting a security assessment, Military Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi declared, “The situation requires continued, intense action in all arenas,” pledging to maintain pressure on Hezbollah.According to Lebanese authorities, Israel’s airstrikes on Monday resulted in the deaths of 558 people, including 50 children and 94 women. They claimed that 10,s of thousands more had left for safety, and that 1,835 more people had been injured.The number of dead and the severity of the strikes by the Middle East’s most potent and sophisticated armed forces have caused fear in Lebanon, which was devastated by the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.Hassan Omar, a resident of Beirut, stated, “We are waiting for victory, God willing, because as long as we have a neighbor like Israel, we can not sleep safely.””They (Israel) want us (Lebanese) to kneel, but we kneel only to God in our prayers; we bow our heads to no one but God,” stated Afif Ibrahim, a taxi driver from southern Lebanon.
has given it a strong edge in both Lebanon and Gaza. It has tracked down and assassinated top Hezbollah commanders and Hamas leaders.But Hezbollah has proved resilient during decades of hostilities with Israel. The group, founded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in 1982 to counter an Israeli invasion of Lebanon, is a more formidable enemy than Hamas.Hezbollah used a new rocket, Fadi 3, in an attack on an Israeli army base, the group announced in a message posted on Telegram on Tuesday.Its media office Israel was dropping leaflets with a “very dangerous” barcode on them onto Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, warning that scanning it by phone would “withdraw all information” from any device.There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. Hezbollah’s media office did not say if anything else was written on the flyers.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Al-Mayadeen, a pan-Arab television network, reported that Hadi al-Sayyed, a journalist for the station’s website, had died on Monday in an Israeli strike on his hometown.This brings the total number of journalists killed in Lebanon since October to four. These include Issam Abdallah, a journalist for Reuters Visuals, who was killed by Israeli tank fire in October of last year, and two more journalists from Al-Mayadeen who were killed in November.
