Israel has struck Lebanon’s capital for the first time since June, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild.

Israel targeted the chief of staff of Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah group in a strike in the capital Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Israel struck Lebanon’s capital on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding more than two dozen others.

Israel killed Hezbollah’s top military chief, Haytham Ali Tabtabai, in a strike in Beirut. Tabtabai, a veteran operative since the 1980s, led Hezbollah’s operations in Syria and Yemen, and had been appointed chief of staff after the 2023–2024 war with Israel.

Israeli strike kills Hezbollah chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabatabai in Beirut as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls him a "mass murderer" with $5 million bounty on his head.

Israeli forces on Sunday struck Lebanon's capital for the first time since June, killing Hezbollah's chief of staff Haytham Tabtabai. The attack on Beirut’s southern suburb, the latest in an unending series of Israeli violations of its ceasefire with the Lebanese group, killed at least five people and injured 25, the country’s health ministry said.

The killing of Hezbollah chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabatabai in an Israeli strike on Sunday has jolted the fragile calm along the Israel-Lebanon border. His death in Beirut’s southern suburbs has raised fears about the ceasefire’s stability.

Israel kills Hezbollah chief of staff in its latest violation of Lebanon ceasefire - First Israeli attack on Beirut since June kills five people and injures 25