Hezbollah confirms deaths of two senior figures in Israeli airstrikes

Hezbollah has announced the deaths of two of its leaders due to Israeli airstrikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

"As a result of the September 28 perfidious strike on the neighborhood of Chiyah, Sheikh Nabil Kaouk was killed. He was a deputy head of the Executive Council and a theologue who promoted awareness and was active in the holy war to liberate Jerusalem," Hezbollah said in a statement, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.

Another leader, Ali Karaki, who was seen as second in Hezbollah’s military structure, was in charge of defenses on the southern front. According to the statement, he was killed on September 27 alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strike on Beirut on Friday. He had survived an earlier Israeli assassination attempt.

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