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Posted on Oct 25, 2024 / World

After Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 civilians and taking more than 250 hostage, the IDF launched a large-scale military operation against terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military also continued to carry out air strikes against Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, which is on the side of Palestinian militants. In July, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran, and in September, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Beirut. Their successors were also killed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly called the "complete destruction of Hamas" one of the main goals of the war, and Defense Minister Yoav Galant said after the assassination of Hamas Politburo chief Yahya Sinwar that the IDF "will get to every terrorist."

March 10
Marwan Issa, deputy commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was killed. Issa was a member of the Palestinian movement’s military council and was considered one of the key liaisons between Hamas’s military and political leaders.

July 13
Mohammed Deif, commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the al-Mawasi camp in the Khan Yunis area of ​​the southern Gaza Strip. The IDF confirmed Deif’s death two weeks later, on August 1. In Israel, Deif is considered one of the organizers of the October 7 attack.

July 30
Fouad Shukr, a Hezbollah military commander who was called the “right hand” of the Lebanese movement’s secretary general Hassan Nasrallah and his adviser on planning terrorist operations, was killed. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese capital of Beirut. In Israel, Shukr is also considered responsible for a missile strike on a football field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, which killed 12 teenagers.

July 31
Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas politburo, was killed in Tehran. He had not been to the Gaza Strip since 2019 and lived in Qatar and Turkey. Haniyeh came to the capital of Iran for the inauguration of the new president of the country, Masoud Pezeshkian. Initially, it was believed that the cause of Haniyeh's death was a missile strike. Later, The New York Times, citing sources, wrote that Haniyeh was killed as a result of a bomb explosion planted in the guesthouse where he was staying. Israel has not officially claimed responsibility for Haniyeh's murder.

August 29
Muhammad Jaber, nicknamed Abu Shujaa, was killed. He was considered the commander of the Islamic Jihad group in the Nur Shams camp and one of the leaders of the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank. He died during one of the IDF's largest anti-terrorist raids in the area of ​​the cities of Jenin and Tulkarm in the West Bank.

September 20
Ibrahim Aqil was killed. In Israel, he was called the second most important military commander of Hezbollah after Fuad Shukr. He died as a result of a "precision" strike by the Israeli military on the suburb of Dahiya in the south of Beirut. Aqil commanded the Radwan forces, an elite unit of Hezbollah. In the 1980s, he was a key member of the Hezbollah cell that claimed responsibility for the bombing of the US embassy in Beirut. He also led the operation to take American and German hostages in Lebanon during those years.

September 27
Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah who led the group for more than 30 years, is killed. The Israel Defense Forces struck a Hezbollah headquarters in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiya on the evening of September 27, confirming Nasrallah’s death the following day. Israeli intelligence had been gathering intelligence for nearly 20 years to track down and attack the Hezbollah leader.

October 4
Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council, Hassan Nasrallah’s unofficial successor and his cousin, is killed. He held the post of successor for less than two weeks. On October 22, the IDF announced that Safieddine was killed in an Israeli air strike on Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut on the night of October 4.

October 16
Yahya Sinwar, the head of the Hamas politburo who took over the post after the death of Ismail Haniyeh, was killed.

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