{"id":211946,"date":"2025-11-24T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=211946"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:15:59","slug":"hezbollah-chief-of-staff-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/211946\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah chief of staff killed in Israeli strike on Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Israeli forces have killed a senior member of Hezbollah in an airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut. This is the first such attack since a months-long ceasefire came into effect, the BBC<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah’s chief of staff, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, was described by Israeli military officials as a veteran member of the group who had held several high-ranking positions.<\/p>\n

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health reported that at least five people were killed and 28 others wounded in the strike on a densely populated residential building in the Dahieh district.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah confirmed Tabatabai’s death, claiming that Israel had “crossed a red line” in carrying out the strike.<\/p>\n

This is Israel’s first strike in southern Beirut in recent months, despite the ceasefire brokered by the United States and France that took effect in November of last year.<\/p>\n

Israeli officials claim Hezbollah is attempting to rebuild its military capabilities by smuggling weapons and increasing production of offensive drones as an alternative to missiles. There are growing concerns about a possible escalation of hostilities.<\/p>\n

“The State of Israel will not allow Hezbollah to rebuild its power, and we will not allow it to once again become a threat to Israel,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israeli forces have killed a senior member of Hezbollah in an airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut. This is the first such attack since a months-long ceasefire came into effect, the BBC reports. Hezbollah’s chief of staff, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, was described by Israeli military officials as a veteran member of the group who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":211936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211947,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211946\/revisions\/211947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}