Iranian advisor among victims of Israeli assassination op. against Hezbollah cmdr.
An Iranian military advisor has been named among the victims of a recent Israeli assassination operation against Lebanon’s capital Beirut that claimed the life of a senior commander of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.
The advisor, identified as Milad Bidi, was martyred on Tuesday, when the attack targeted the building accommodating the Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Bidi was located in the vicinity of the building at the time of the attack that struck the Haret Hreik neighborhood in Beirut’s suburbs.
According to Lebanon’s’ health ministry, two children were also among the victims of the operation that wounded another 74 people.
The Israeli regime carried out the assassination after alleging that Shukr had been behind a rocket strike against the town of Majdal Shams in Syria’s Tel Aviv-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 people on Saturday.
Hezbollah has strongly denied any role in the incident, denouncing the Israeli claims as “false allegations.”
Some reports have, meanwhile, suggested that the explosion that hit the Syrian town was likely caused by a stray projectile fired by the Israeli regime’s so-called Iron Dome missile system.
Also on Wednesday, another assassination operation claimed the lives of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards in Tehran. The Palestinian resistance leader was in the Iranian capital to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The back-to-back assassinations came amid Hamas’ all-out efforts to defend the Gaza Strip against an ongoing Israeli war of genocide, and the movement’s participation in negotiations aimed at bringing about a truce in the brutal military onslaught.
They also coincided with repeated retaliatory operations that Hezbollah has been conducting against the occupied Palestinian territories in support of the war-hit Gazans.
Both resistance groups have vowed to avenge the blood of the victims, while Iran has warned Tel Aviv about a pending “harsh response” to violation of its sovereignty and assassination of an official guest of the country.
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