a senior military leader of Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, killed in Lebanon in an Israeli strike

This is the most senior military official of the Lebanese terrorist movement killed since clashes between Hezbollah and Israel resumed on the Lebanese border.

A senior military official from pro-Iranian Hezbollah, Commander Wissam Hassan Tawil, was killed in an Israeli strike on Monday January 8 in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese terrorist movement announced. He is the highest-ranking Hezbollah military official killed since clashes between the Hamas-allied terrorist organization and Israel resumed.

The group posted several photos of Wissam Hassan Tawil online, including one alongside Qassem Soleimani, former architect of Iranian military operations in the Middle East killed in January 2020 by an American strike in Iraq. He also appears with Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah, and Imad Moghnieh, a senior military official killed in 2008 in Damascus.

Hamas number two killed on January 2

This Israeli raid comes after the death of Hamas number two, Saleh al-Arouri, and six other officials and executives of the Palestinian Islamist movement, in a strike attributed to Israel on January 2.

The strike targeted an office of the movement in the southern suburbs of Beirut, stronghold of Hezbollah, which announced that it had launched 62 rockets on Saturday in retaliation at a military base in northern Israel. Hezbollah says it is acting to support Hamas, which took power in the Gaza Strip in 2007, where the war has entered its fourth month.