Critical players: The archenemies of Israel killed in two strikes
The abrupt assassinations of a shadowy Hezbollah leader and Hamas’s political chief have shaken the region.
Two of Israel’s greatest enemies were killed this week within hours as assassinations took the lives of the senior figures in regional militant groups who played key, but very different, roles in the Jewish state’s long conflict with its neighbours.
The first, Fuad Shukr, operated in the shadows. He was one of the earliest members of Hezbollah, the Shia militant group created in the 1980s during Lebanon’s civil war and Israel’s subsequent invasion.
Financial Times
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