Hezbollah confirms its commander Ali Karaki was killed in the same Israeli bomb attack that killed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut

The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah announced this Sunday that its historic commander Ali Karaki died on Friday the same Israeli bombing who killed the organization’s top leader, Hassan Nasrallahin the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahye.

“Islamic resistance brings to the people of resistance and martyrs the great jihadi leader Hajj Ali Karaki alias Abu al Fadl, who was martyred with a group of his fighting brothers in a criminal Zionist raid on Haret Hreik.”the extremist group said in a statement.

According to Karaki’s note commanded the group’s operations in southern Lebanon from 1982and therefore played a “historic” role during the end of Israel’s invasion of the region in 2000, as well as during the subsequent war fought by the parties in the summer of 2006.

Likewise, he was at all times “directly and in the field responsible for the direction of the Southern Front with all its axes and units” during the border clashes that began on October 8, one day after the outbreak of the Gaza war.

Karaki had already survived another airstrike on Dahy a few days ago, when Hezbollah came out to deny reports of his death coming from Israel and confirmed that its high command “moved to safety” after the failed bombing.

According to Lebanese media, at least some of the missiles fired that day landed in the area without exploding.

Security sources quoted by the Israeli press described him even then as responsible for the group’s military activities in southern Lebanon and assured that he is also a member of the Jihad Council, the movement’s body responsible for security plans.

In the past 10 days, Israel has launched several bombings against alleged Hezbollah targets in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the most serious of which last Friday killed Karaki, Nasrallah and other senior officials believed to be undisclosed by the drill. .

Hezbollah has also been the target of a sophisticated attack on its pagers and radios, widely blamed on Israel. A wave of Israeli airstrikes on large areas of Lebanon have killed at least 1,030 people, including 156 women and 87 children, in less than two weeks, Lebanon’s health ministry said.

Hundreds of thousands of people have had to leave their homes in Lebanon due to the latest attacks. The government estimates about 250,000 are in shelters and three to four times that number are staying with friends or relatives or camping on the street, Environment Minister Nasser Yassin told the AP.

Hezbollah continued to fire missiles and rockets against northern Israel, but most were captured or fell in open areas. No Israelis have been killed since the latest wave of attacks against the terrorist group’s main leaders on September 20.

(With information from EFE and AP)