Israel Kills Top Hezbollah Commander in Attack on Lebanon’s Capital 

Hezbollah has confirmed that its top military commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai has been killed in an Israeli air strike on Lebanon’s capital. 
  
Tabatabai, the chief of staff of the group’s armed wing, was among at least five people killed in the attack on an apartment block in the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeh in southern Beirut on Sunday. 
  
Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since the start of a November 2024 ceasefire aimed at ending over a year of hostilities between the two. 
 
Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said the Israeli attack also wounded 28 people. 
 
Israel has been carrying out near-daily strikes on southern Lebanon and has also attacked Beirut several times, but the capital had not been hit in the past several months. 
  
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called on the international community to intervene firmly to stop the Israeli attacks on the country. 
 
Israel and the U.S. have been piling pressure on Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah. 
  
The Lebanese military issued a plan that the government approved in September that would disarm Hezbollah across the country by the end of the year. Hezbollah has refused to comply while Israel continues to bomb the country and occupy parts of the south. 
 
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