The wave of assassinations puts Haider and Al-Tabtabai at the head of Hezbollah’s military leadership

Ariel Oseran, a correspondent for the Israeli English channel i24NEWS, reported on his account on the platform “X” that two of the remaining senior leaders of Hezbollah, Muhammad Haidar and Haitham Ali al-Tabtabai, has unofficially assumed military control in southern Lebanon. Osiran explained that this step came at the initiative of Haider and Al-Tabtabai without an official appointment.

According to Osiran, Muhammad Haidar was a senior advisor to the former Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and was the deputy commander of the party’s forces in Beirut and the Bekaa, where he is known for the great victory which he called the weapon of the party. operations. As for Haitham Ali Al-Tabtabai, he is the former commander of the Al-Radwan Force, the special unit that participated in military operations in Syria and Yemen, and is on the most wanted list in the United States with a prize of $5 million. in exchange for information leading to his arrest.

Osiran says that Hezbollah suffers from a lack of central leadership, as each local unit operates independently. In Beirut, Hezbollah began to adopt traditional methods of communication, such as sending messages through correspondents and using handwritten notes, due to fears of Israeli infiltration.

The Lebanese scene saw a major development at the end of September with the assassination of Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli air strike targeting the party’s headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, where Israel claimed h -official responsibility, saying it was part of his efforts to weaken the military capabilities of the party.

A week after Nasrallah’s assassination, Hashem Safi al-Din, head of the Executive Council and Nasrallah’s cousin, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, which created a huge leadership vacuum within the party and continued to hire a new person. leaders to face the growing security situations.

The most prominent assassinations of Hezbollah leaders:

Hassan Nasrallah (1960-2024): Secretary-General of Hezbollah since 1992. He led the party at sensitive levels such as the July 2006 war, and was assassinated on September 27, 2024, by an Israeli attack.

Hashem Safi al-Din (1964-2024): Chairman of the Executive Council and Nasrallah’s cousin, he was a candidate to succeed him, and was assassinated on October 4, 2024 in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Fouad Shukr (1961-2024): From the founding generation of the party and the leader of military operations in southern Lebanon, he was killed on July 30, 2024 in an attack attributed to Israel.

Ibrahim Aqeel (1952-2024): One of Hezbollah’s top military commanders, he was killed on September 20, 2024 in an attack targeting a meeting of party leaders.

Ahmed Mahmoud Wehbe (1965-2024): Commanded the Central Training Unit He was killed on September 20, 2024 in an Israeli attack.

Muhammad Hussein Sorour (1960-2024): Hezbollah drone developer, killed on September 26, 2024 in an attack on a site in southern Lebanon.

Two of Hezbollah’s remaining senior commanders, Muhammad Haidar and Haytham Ali Tabataba’i, have assumed military leadership in southern Lebanon, a security source tells i24NEWS.

Haidar, a senior adviser to Nasrallah, is the deputy commander of Hezbollah forces in Beirut and the… pic.twitter.com/ZGN6TFvWAM

— Ariel Oseran (@ariel_oseran) October 30, 2024