Israel Confirms Attack; Another Hezbollah Commander Killed

The Israeli army states that a senior Hezbollah commander was killed in a drone strike last night in southern Lebanon. According to the Israeli army, Hossein Ibrahim Maki was a senior commander of the Hezbollah group in the so-called 'Southern Front.' The Israeli army claims that he previously commanded Hezbollah's coastal brigade. Hezbollah had earlier announced his death following an airstrike near Tyre but did not refer to him as a commander. Images attributed to the attack led to the explosion of the vehicle carrying Maki. The Israeli army stated that Maki 'designed and executed many terrorist attacks against Israel amid the war.' Iranian state media also referred to him as a 'comrade' of Mohammad Reza Zahedi and one of the 'commanders of Hezbollah Lebanon.' Zahedi, the commander of the Quds Force's Syria and Lebanon branch, was a senior IRGC official who, along with Hossein Amanollahi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, was killed during an attack on a building next to the Islamic Republic's embassy in Damascus on April 2. In response to this attack, the Islamic Republic conducted several direct missile and drone strikes against Israel for the first time on April 14 and 15, escalating regional tensions. Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and groups known as Islamic Resistance in Iraq and Syria are among the Islamic Republic's proxy groups in the region that have attacked Israeli, American, and their allies' interests in the Middle East with Tehran's support in recent months. In recent months, following reciprocal clashes between Hezbollah and the Israeli army in northern Israel, several senior Hezbollah commanders have been targeted and killed in air and drone strikes. Reports indicate an Israeli missile attack on the outskirts of Damascus; the 'command center' of the group supported by the Islamic Republic was targeted. When 'the shadow war' ends; a review of the decades-long hostility between the Islamic Republic and Israel. The Israeli army reported the killing of several Hezbollah commanders in southern Lebanon. According to the Times of Israel, Zahedi was a member of the 'Hezbollah Lebanon Council.'