Israeli Airstrike In Lebanon Targets Senior Hezbollah Commander, Group Says He Is Safe –

Hezbollah announced that Ali Karaki, the group’s third-highest-ranking official, is alive and has been relocated to a safe location after reports surfaced that he was targeted in an Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut, which had left his fate uncertain.

In a statement released Monday night, the Iran backed group confirmed that the strike had aimed at Karaki, but assured that he was “fine and, God willing, in full health and wellness and has moved to a safe place”, as per report by The Times of Israel.

Karaki is in charge of Hezbollah’s “Southern Front,” which manages the group’s military operations in southern Lebanon. He is the third-highest leader in Hezbollah’s armed forces and the most senior member left after the assassinations of key commanders Fuad Shukr and Ibrahim Aqil.

Ibrahim Aqil, who led Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, was killed in a targeted Israeli military strike in Beirut last week. Meanwhile, strikes attributed to Israel earlier this year also resulted in the deaths of Fuad Shukr, a senior commander, and Saleh al-Aruri, a leader in the allied Palestinian militant group Hamas.