Harry Bennett
Years from now, the final week of July 2024 will be marked by historians as a moment of significant escalation in the on-going conflict in the Middle East.
On the 30th July, Israel assassinated senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in the south suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The attack was a direct retaliation for the killing of twelve young people in the Israeli-administered Golan Heights region. According to the UN, the Golan Heights is recognized as part of Syria and has been under Israeli occupation since 1967 when it was annexed following the Six-Day War. Regardless, the attack was viewed by Israel as a violation, directly attributable to the Shia Iran proxy group Hezbollah.
Soon thereafter, Israel launched a second successful assassination, terminating Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. Significantly, Haniyeh was killed in Tehran – marking not only an attack on Hamas, but also, in the eyes of the Iranian state, as an attack on Iran. Haniyeh’s death has been met with public mourning in the streets of the Tehran and Iranian officials have vowed to revenge the killing with a “harsh punishment.”
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