Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s military chief, was killed Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs, which left six others dead, five of them civilians.
After that attack, “We expect Hezbollah to choose more targets and strike in depth” Israel, Iran’s delegation said on Saturday before the United Nations, cited by the official news agency Irna.
Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian Hamas movement and backed by Iran, has been exchanging fire almost daily with the Israeli army along the Israeli-Lebanese border since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 7.
From now on, the Lebanese movement “will not limit its response to military objectives,” added the Iranian representation.
Iran and Hamas also accused Israel of killing Palestinian Islamist leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday and vowed to retaliate.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says Hamas leader killed by ‘short-range projectile’
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a “short-range projectile” fired at his residence in Tehran in an operation that Iran attributes to Israel, the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, announced on Saturday.
“This terrorist operation was carried out by firing a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kilograms from outside the place where the guests were staying, causing a strong explosion,” they said in a statement carried by the official Irna news agency.
According to the Guardians, Israel was “supported by the United States” in the attack. Haniyeh was killed early Wednesday in the Iranian capital, where he was attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Masud Pezeshkian.
The Guardians repeated that Haniyeh would be avenged and that Israel would receive “severe punishment at the appropriate time, place and manner.”
Israel, which has declined to comment on Haniyeh’s death, did claim responsibility for an attack this week on a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut that killed a senior commander of the Lebanese group.
Source: Ambito
