Israel’s Most Recent Strikes Against the Hezbollah in Lebanon
Last Friday, Israel had launched another strike in the Hezboliah’s stronghold in Beirut, which razed down a multi storey residential building occupied by an elite group of the Iran-backed Lebanese Shia militia. The attack left 31 people dead including high ranking commanders and 16 Hezboliah of the militant group.
Among the commanders killed was Ibrahim Aqil, who was identified as the leader of the elite militia unit that carried out the 1983 suicide bombing attack on a US military barrack in Beirut. The incident killed 243 US military personnel, six civilians and 58 French military servicemen.
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Prior to the Israeli strike last Friday, a series of small blasts caused by exploding pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon, killed dozens of Hezbollah operatives and wounded thousands who were within the range of the small blasts.
ICC Prosecutors Reiterate Request for Warrants to Arrest Israeli Prime and Defense Ministers
The news prompted prosecutors of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) to reiterate their request for the warrants of arrest for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Actually, the plea was entered by the ICC in October 2023 but the government of Israel argued that the ICC lacks legal jurisdiction over the ongoing Israeli-Hamas war. The Israeli government called the request a wrongful breach of the international Court’s Statute as the request does not conform to the principle of complementarity.