It’s Lonely at the Top

I’m speaking (metaphorically of course) of the top leadership of Hezbollah. As of this writing, nearly all of the senior Hezbollah military leadership has been offed between the pageritis and the on-going airstrikes across Lebanon and parts of Syria.

Additionally, Ibrahim Qubaisi, who was in charge of Hezbollah rockets, missiles and drones, was killed in an airstrike in Beirut.

That leaves General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah, Ali Karaki, the Hezb southern front commander and Ali Abu Rida, the Badr force commander. Nasrallah hasn’t seen the light of day in several years, and will be difficult to target. The IDF leveled Karaki’s home yesterday and there were some reports that he’d been eliminated in the strike. So far there hasn’t been official confirmation though. Rida is, I’m confident, next on the list.

It gets worse for Hezbollah though. You can be 110% sure that Mossad and Shin Bet are looking at all the social media in Lebanon and seeing who got blown up by a pager and tracing their contacts.