Israeli airstrikes have killed a senior Hamas official in Lebanon while a separate strike in Iraq killed a commander from the Iran-backed militia Kataeb Hezbollah. Lebanese state media reported that the Hamas figure was killed in a targeted drone strike, marking the first reported assassination of a Hamas member since the regional war expanded following the US-Israel strikes on Iran. At the same time, the Tehran-backed militia Kataeb Hezbollah confirmed that one of its commanders was killed in a strike near its base in southern Iraq. The group blamed the attack on Israel and the United States.
