Israel attack kills senior Hezbollah commander

On 2026-05-07, an Israeli strike hit Ghobeiri in Beirut's southern suburbs, reportedly killing Malek Ballout, identified by a source close to Hezbollah as the operations commander in the group's Radwan force. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Israeli warplanes launched the attack targeting Ghobeiri. The article describes this as the first strike on the area in nearly a month.