The Israeli military has killed Hezbollah's top military official, Haytham Ali Tabtabai, in a strike on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital that came despite a year-long ceasefire.

His killing was announced by Israel's military. Hezbollah later confirmed his death, hailing him as "the great jihadist commander" who had "worked to confront the Israeli enemy until the last moment of his blessed life".

Israel had already eliminated most of Iran-backed Hezbollah's leadership during a war that raged between October 2023 and November 2024, when a US-brokered truce was agreed.

But Tabtabai, who was appointed as the group's chief of staff after its recent war with Israel, was killed in a rare post-ceasefire operation against a senior Hezbollah figure.

The United States imposed sanctions on Ta

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