New Delhi, Nov. 24 -- Israel confirmed on Sunday (November 23) that it killed Hezbollah's top military official, Haytham Ali Tabtabai, in a strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The operation came despite a nearly year-long US-brokered ceasefire with Lebanon. Hezbollah later confirmed Tabtabai's death, calling him "the great jihadist commander" who "worked to confront the Israeli enemy until the last moment of his blessed life."

Tabtabai, born in Lebanon in 1968 to an Iranian father and a Lebanese mother, was part of Hezbollah's so-called "second generation" of leaders. He joined the group in the 1980s and served in multiple senior positions, including in the elite Radwan Force. Over decades, he fought in Syria and Yemen, gaining op...