The impact of the Israeli defence Force (IDF) raid on Beirut, Lebanon, carried out on 23 November 2025. © Scott Peterson / Getty Images
In a Sunday Israeli raid on Beirut, a advanced commander of the Hezbollah combat movement was killed.
Haytham Ali Tabatabai, besides known as Abu Ali Tabatabai, was attacked in the Haret Hreik District, Hezbollah bastion in the capital of Lebanon.
Both Hezbollah and Israel's defence Forces (IDF) confirmed his death.
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, at least 5 people died in the attack and 28 were injured.
Tabatabai joined Hezbollah as a teenager after his creation during Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
He was 1 of the fewer longtime commanders who survived the Israeli run of deliberate killing last year.
Hezbollah is 1 of the forces supported by Iran against Israel's regional dominance.
Prime Minister Beniamin Netanyahu praised the attack, calling it part of Israel's ongoing efforts to destruct this group, accused of terrorism.
“For a reason, the United States has set a prize of $5 million for his head” said Netanjahu in the X program, referring to the award granted by the US in 2016, a year after Tabatabai avoided an earlier Israeli assassination attempt.
Israeli officials stated that Tabatabai served as ‘Deputy Commander’ in the current military hierarchy of the group. Hezbollah called him ‘great commander’.
Netanjahu claimed that Tabatabai oversaw Hezbollah's weapons operations, which had rebuilt its possible after a series of Israeli failures, including after the detonation of pagers with explosive charges last year, which Israeli intelligence had previously infiltrated in the traffic supply channels.
He argued that dissolving the organisation would enable “a better future... any citizen of Lebanon’.
Lebanon's president Joseph Aoun condemned the fresh attack, calling on the global community to "take work and decisive and serious action to halt attacks on Lebanon and its people".
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/628278-idf-kills-hezbollah-commander/
