A top figure in Hezbollah has been killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon – the latest in an escalating exchange of strikes that has stoked fears of the war in Gaza spreading across the Middle East.
Wissam Tawil was a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, and is the most senior Hezbollah officer to have been killed so far in weeks of cross-border strikes since the Hamas attack inside Israel on 7 October, which killed 1,200 people and saw another 240 taken hostage. Israel has vowed to eradicate Hamas and has been bombarding Gaza since the attack, while Iran-backed Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, has been hitting the Israeli border almost daily.
