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Mass funeral in Beirut for Hezbollah military leader killed by Israel

Hezbollah will celebrate the funeral of its top military leader Haytham Ali Tabatabai and other members of the Lebanese Shia movement today, in the aftermath of the Israeli attack that killed them in Beirut.

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The IDF Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, announced on Sunday evening the removal of several officers for their role in the 7 October 2023 failures.

Most of the commanders who were dismissed had already resigned from the Idf, making Zamir's moves largely symbolic.

The Times of Israel reports that Zamir removed:
1)the former head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Major General (Reserve) Aharon Haliva, who had announced his resignation in April 2024 and was then replaced in August of the same year;
2) the former head of the Operations Directorate, Major General Oded Basiuk, who resigned from the army at the end of his term in July;
3) the former head of the Southern Command, Major General Yaron Finkelman, who announced his resignation in January, before being replaced in March.

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Katz freezes Idf appointments and orders review of report 7 October

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced the freezing of senior IDF appointments for 30 days to review the 7 October report on the army's failures, presented earlier this month by a commission headed by retired General Sami Turgeman.

This was reported in the Israeli media. Katz instructed the defence system auditor, retired General Yair Volanski, to review the document, including the need for further verification in areas that the IDF had not been addressed by the commission. The conclusions are to be submitted within 30 days.

Yesterday, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir announced that several senior Israeli army commanders who served before and during 7 October would be discharged from reserve service due to their personal responsibility for the actions that led to the Hamas attack in southern Israel. Zamir would not update Katz on personal sanctions to the commanders involved. The Defence Minister learned of this through the Israeli media.

Al Jazeera: Islamic Jihad found the remains of a hostage

Al Jazeera reports that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has located the remains of a slain hostage in the north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip. Israeli media reported this. There are still three bodies of dead hostages that Jihad and Hamas must return to Israel under the ceasefire agreement.

La gente partecipa al funerale del massimo funzionario militare di Hezbollah, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, e di altre persone uccise domenica da un attacco aereo israeliano, nonostante una tregua mediata dagli Stati Uniti un anno fa, nella periferia meridionale di Beirut, in Libano, il 24 novembre 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Hezbollah celebrates mass funeral in Beirut for Tabatabai

Hezbollah will today hold the funeral of its main military leader Haytham Ali Tabatabai and other members of the Lebanese Shia movement, in the aftermath of the Israeli attack that killed them in Beirut.

Haytham Ali Tabatabai is the longest-serving Hezbollah commander to have been killed by Israel since the November 2024 ceasefire was sanctioned to end more than a year of hostilities between the two sides.

Hezbollah has invited its supporters to attend the mass funeral of its 'great leader' Tabatabai, to be held in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a densely populated area where it wields its power.