Daniel Byman
“We worry about Iran, train against Hezbollah, and fight Palestinians,” a former Israeli security official told me when I visited Israel’s northern border last year. The training has paid off. Even as the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, caught Israel’s vaunted intelligence services and military flat-footed, Israel has had a series of impressive, indeed stunning, intelligence successes against a far more formidable adversary, Hezbollah in Lebanon, culminating with the assassination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
The Israeli military said on Saturday that Nasrallah and at least one other senior Hezbollah figure had died in a massive airstrike on Friday, describing the target as the group’s underground headquarters in Beirut. Lebanon said at least six people were killed in the attack, with the casualty number expected to rise. Hezbollah later confirmed Nasrallah’s death.
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