Hezbollah confirms 2 more of its leaders killed in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon [Video]

Hezbollah has confirmed the death of high-ranking official Nabil Kaouk in an Israeli airstrike, the seventh senior commander killed in just over a week.

The Israeli military earlier said it had killed Kaouk in a strike in a southern Beirut suburb on Saturday.

Kaouk was deputy head of Hezbollah’s Central Council. He also served as Hezbollah’s military commander in south Lebanon from 1995 until 2010.

He was the seventh senior leader of the Lebanon-based Shia militant group to be killed since Sept. 20. They include Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s top leader for more than three decades.

Senior Hezbollah commander Ali Karaki also died in the airstrike that killed Nasrallah in Beirut on Friday, Hezbollah confirmed Sunday. Israel has said the strike targeted a meeting at an underground Hezbollah compound. 

The several senior Hezbollah commanders killed in recent weeks include founding members who had evaded death or detention for decades and were …