Who are the 35 Hezbollah commanders killed in Israel war?

Hezbollah published Tuesday the names and faces of 35 of its commanders killed "on the road to Jerusalem," in addition to former leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine.

The 35 Hezbollah leaders killed in the 13 months war with Israel are:

Ali Karaki, Fouad Shokor, Ibrahim Aqil, Suheil al-Husseini, Nabil Qaouq, Hussein Hazimeh, Abed el-Amir Siblini, Ali Ayyoub, Taleb Abdallah, Mohammad Nasser, Wissam Taweel, Mohammad Qassir, Abbas Salameh, Ahmad Wehbe, Ibrahim Qobaissi, Hussein Ismail, Ali Bahsoun, Mohammad Skafi, Ibrahim Jezzini, Hassan Ezzeddine, Mohammad Mahmoud, Hassan Reda, Samir Deeb, Mohammad Srour, Ali Gharib, Mostafa Shehadeh, Khodor Atwi, Mahmoud Shahine, Hussein Makki, Fouad Khanafer, Mohammad Nabulsi, Mohammad Ismail, Abbas Sharafeddine, Eid Nashar, Mohammad Khaireddine.

The killing of high-ranking commanders and officials from Hezbollah left Lebanon and much of the Mideast in shock as Israeli officials celebrated major military and intelligence breakthroughs.

Nasrallah was killed in a series of airstrikes that leveled several buildings in southern Beirut. Others were lesser-known in the outside world, but still key to Hezbollah’s operations.

Hassan Nasrallah

Since 1992, Nasrallah had led the group through several wars with Israel, and oversaw the party’s transformation into a powerful player in Lebanon. Hezbollah entered Lebanon’s political arena while also taking part in regional conflicts that made it the most powerful paramilitary force. After Syria’s uprising in 2011 spiraled into civil war, Hezbollah played a pivotal role in keeping Syrian President Bashar Assad in power. Under Nasrallah, Hezbollah also helped develop the capabilities of fellow Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq and Yemen.

Nasrallah is a divisive figure in Lebanon, with his supporters hailing him for ending Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000, and his opponents decrying him for the group’s weapons stockpile and making unilateral decisions that they say serves an agenda for Tehran and allies.

Nabil Qaouq

Qaouk, who was killed in an airstrike in September, was the deputy head of Hezbollah’s Central Council. He joined the militant group in its early days in the 1980s. Qaouq also served as Hezbollah’s military commander in south Lebanon from 1995 until 2010. He made several media appearances and gave speeches to supporters, including in funerals for killed Hezbollah militants. He had been seen as a potential successor to Nasrallah.

Ibrahim Aqil

Aqil was a top commander and led Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Forces, which Israel has been trying to push further away from its border with Lebanon. He was also a member of its highest military body, the Jihad Council, and for years had been on the United States’ wanted list. The U.S. State Department says Aqil was part of the group that carried out the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and orchestrated the taking of German and American hostages.

Ahmad Wehbe

Wehbe was a commander of the Radwan Forces and played a crucial role in developing the group since its formation almost two decades ago. He was killed alongside Aqil in an airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs that struck and leveled a building.

Ali Karaki

Karaki led Hezbollah’s southern front, playing a key role in the ongoing conflict. The U.S. described him as a significant figure in the militant group’s leadership. Little is known about Karaki, who was killed alongside Nasrallah.

Mohammad Srour

Srour was the head of Hezbollah’s drone unit, which was used for the first time in the latest conflict with Israel. Under his leadership, Hezbollah launched exploding and reconnaissance drones deep into Israel, penetrating its defense systems which had mostly focused on the group’s rockets and missiles.

Ibrahim Qobaissi

Qobaissi led Hezbollah’s missile unit. The Israeli military says Qobaissi planned the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli soldiers at the northern border in 2000, whose bodies were returned in a prisoner swap with Hezbollah four years later.

Other senior commanders killed in action

Even in the months before the escalation of the war with Hezbollah in September, Israel’s military had targeted top commanders, most notably Fouad Shokor in late July, hours before an explosion in Iran widely blamed on Israel killed the leader of the Palestinian Hamas militant group Ismail Haniyeh. The U.S. accuses Fouad Shokor of orchestrating the 1983 bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American servicemen.

Leaders of key units in the south, Wissam Taweel, Taleb Abdallah, and Mohammad Nasser, who over several decades became instrumental members of Hezbollah’s military activity were all assassinated.

Who is left?

Nasrallah’s second-in-command and new leader Naim Qassem is the most senior member of the organization. Qassem has been Hezbollah’s deputy leader since 1991, and is among its founding members.

Qassem is the only top official of the militant group who has conducted interviews with local and international media in the ongoing conflict.

He appears to be involved in various aspects of the militant group, both in top political and security matters, but also in matters related to Hezbollah’s theocratic and charity initiatives in Lebanon.

Talal Hamieh and Abou Ali Reda are the two remaining top commanders from Hezbollah who are alive and apparently on the Israeli military’s crosshairs.

Head of Hezbollah's Liaison and Coordination Unit Wafiq Safa, who was targeted in October in Israeli airstrikes on buildings in Beirut, appeared unscathed this February in an interview with pro-Hezbollah TV channel al-Mayadeen.