{"id":2198326,"date":"2024-03-13T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idf-kills-senior-hamas-commander-in-strike-on-lebanon\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:11:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:11:14","slug":"idf-kills-senior-hamas-commander-in-strike-on-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idf-kills-senior-hamas-commander-in-strike-on-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Defense Forces Eliminate Top Hamas Leader in Attack on Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fidf-kills-senior-hamas-commander-in-strike-on-lebanon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2198326&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Israel Strikes Senior Hamas Commander in Lebanon<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Israel Defense Forces announced the elimination of \u2064a key Hamas figure in Lebanon.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hadi Mustafa, a senior Hamas commander responsible for orchestrating terrorist attacks \u200dagainst Israel, met his fate during an Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-791708\"><strong>airstrike<\/strong><\/a> near the Rashidieh camp in Lebanon. Mustafa&#8217;s involvement in\u200c directing \u2063terror activities \u2064against Israel marked him as a significant target for the IDF.<\/p>\n<h3>Hamas\u2063 Confirms Loss<\/h3>\n<p>The recent\u2063 strike not only \u200bclaimed Mustafa&#8217;s life \u2063but also resulted\u200d in the demise of a Syrian\u200c individual near the targeted vehicle. Hamas acknowledged the loss \u2062of a high-ranking official from its military wing, underscoring the impact of the operation in \u2063Lebanon.<\/p>\n<h3>Escalating Tensions<\/h3>\n<p>The airstrike occurred\u200c in the aftermath of Hezbollah&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/12\/world\/middleeast\/hezbollah-rockets-israel-lebanon.html\"><strong>rocket offensive<\/strong><\/a> against northern Israel. This development \u200bfollows\u2064 Israel&#8217;s previous military actions in Lebanon triggered by Hezbollah&#8217;s and \u2062Hamas&#8217;s provocative attacks, highlighting the escalating conflict in the \u2062region.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in January, Israel had conducted a drone strike targeting a senior Hamas leader \u2064in a Beirut office, demonstrating \u200dits\u2063 resolve to counter threats posed by militant groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed an airstrike by one of their fighter jets took down senior Hamas commander Hadi Mustafa. Mustafa, a key figure in organizing terrorist attacks against Israel, was targeted while traveling. The operation aimed at Hamas terrorists and their allies resulted in his demise on Wednesday morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2807,"featured_media":2198327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hamas2-scaled-e1622045816116.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Israeli Defense Forces Eliminate Top Hamas Leader in Attack on Lebanon","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hamas2-scaled-e1622045816116.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Israeli Defense Forces Eliminate Top Hamas Leader in Attack on Lebanon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}