New successful Israeli operation in Lebanon: IDF eliminates head of Hezbollah air unit

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out a targeted elimination in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, in which Muhammad Hussein Sarur, also known as Abu Salah, head of the Hezbollah air unit that was in charge of drone strikes in Israeli territory, was killed.

According to an IDF statement, Sarur directed several aerial terrorist attacks, both with drones and cruise missiles.

Arab media reported that the offensive was carried out with three missiles and took place in a building located in the Beirut suburb of Dahieh, near the area where recently eliminated Ibrahim Aqil, Hezbollah's chief of operations and considered the terrorist organization's No. 2.

The operation was approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while he was on the plane taking him to the United States, where next Friday he will deliver a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

The Lebanese National News Agency reported that at least four people were killed in the attack.

The Hezbollah commanders eliminated by Israel since the beginning of the conflict following the Oct. 7 massacre

Sarur and Aqil are not the only senior Hezbollah commanders to be eliminated by Israel following the Oct. 7 massacre.

On Jan. 8, Wisam Tawil, commander of the Radwan Force, Hezbollah's elite unit, was eliminated. This terrorist was involved in the kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in 2006, which led to the Second Lebanon War that same year. He was also responsible for a series of attacks against Israel from Lebanese soil.

Five months later, on June 12, Sami Taleb Abdallah, commander of the Nasser Unit, was killed in an Israeli operation. He led a series of attacks against Israel during the conflict unleashed after the Oct. 7 massacre.

On July 3 of this year, the IDF eliminated Mohammad Naama Nasser, commander of the Aziz Force.

On July 30, Fuad Shukr, considered Hezbollah's highest-ranking military commander and head of the group's strategic structure, was killed in an IDF bombing in Beirut in response to the organization's attack that killed 12 Israeli children in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in northern Israel.

Who else is in Israel's crosshairs? 

These are other senior Hezbollah commanders, in addition to Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, who are in the IDF's sights, Israel's Channel 12 reported.

Ali Karki, head of Hezbollah's Southern Front, considered a high-profile figure in attacks against Israel; Talal Hamiyah, head of Unit 910, in charge of the terrorist group's external operations and attacks; and Mohammad Haydar, Nasrallah's senior advisor and a member of the organization's Jihad Council are all Israeli targets. The latter is in charge, among other tasks, of smuggling weapons from Iran.