The group’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said he was exploring a “real response” to the death of Hezbollah chief Fuad Shukr. It came just hours after Iran also said it would take revenge for the suspected Israeli killing of Hamas’s chief Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday, in a move that has heightened fears over possible all-out war across the Middle East.
Gaza’s Hamas and Hezbollah (which controls southern Lebanon) form part of Iran’s so-called “axis of resistance”.
Israel has not claimed responsibility for 62-year-old Haniyeh’s death, but officials have previously warned they would target all Hamas leaders responsible for the 7 October attack on southern Israel that triggered Israel’s war in Gaza. The Hamas attack killed around 1,200 people, most of them civilians, while another 250 hostages were taken back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
The Gaza health ministry in the Hamas-run Strip says more than 39,400 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in the subsequent Israeli offensive. On Thursday, Israel’s military confirmed that the head of Hamas’s military wing, Mohammed Deif, had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last month.
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