‘Israel to pay price for assassinating top Hezbollah commander’: Hamas

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced as “a foolish act” the Israeli regime’s assassination of a top Hezbollah commander in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, warning that Tel Aviv will pay the price for the crime.

Hamas made the remarks in a statement on Saturday, a day after the Lebanese resistance Hezbollah announced the assassination of top-ranking commander Ibrahim Aqil in an Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

“We affirm that this crime committed by the occupation is a foolish act for which it will pay a heavy price, and that the blood of the martyr, the leader Ibrahim Aqil, along with the blood of the martyrs of our people and our Islamic nation, shed on the path to al-Quds, will be the flames that engulf this artificial entity,” it said.

The resistance group went on to say that this crime committed by the Israeli regime would be “a major step toward the removal of the occupation from Palestine and its eradication from the region."

Hezbollah confirms assassination of top-ranking commander Ibrahim Aqil in Israeli strike

The Lebanese resistance Hezbollah has announced the assassination of top-ranking commander Ibrahim Aqil in an Israeli strike.

Hamas further noted that the killing of Hezbollah leader Aqil reaffirms the unity between the two groups and their shared fate and path.

It also thanked the Lebanese resistance group for its ongoing support to the Palestinian people, who are subjected to brutal genocide by Israel, while extending condolences over the martyrdom of Hezbollah’s senior commander Aqil.

On Friday, Israel carried out a terrorist attack on a residential building in a densely populated area in Beirut, which resulted in the killing of many people, including women and children.

Hezbollah confirmed that one of its top commanders Ibrahim Aqil was killed in the Israeli attack.

Hajj Aqil joined Hezbollah in the 1980s and was responsible for the resistance group’s operations against Israel.

He has replaced Fuad Shukr, who was assassinated in an Israeli-targeted killing attack against Beirut on July 30.

Israeli airstrikes target Beirut; several children among fatalities

The Israeli military carries out an airstrike against the Lebanese capital Beirut, killing five children.

Meanwhile, Lebanese Caretaker Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamieh has condemned Israel’s latest attack in Beirut, stressing that the occupying regime is “dragging the region into a war”.

He also stated that the strike constituted a war crime, adding that it was an attack on the “laws that govern the international community”.

The Israeli regime has intensified its attacks on Lebanon, mostly its southern areas, since October 7, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah has been responding with hundreds of retaliatory strikes both in support of the war-hit Gazans and in response to the Israeli escalation against Lebanon.

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