Netanyahu speaks out following deadly Israeli strikes against Iranian proxies

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a public video statement on Wednesday, speaking of recent significant blows dealt to the Iranian proxies.

Netanyahu spoke of Israel's recent targeting of Iran-backed Houthis, and a strike against a key Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr, who was killed on Tuesday in southern Beirut, Lebanon.

The prime minister made no mention of the deadly strike on Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, for which Israel has not taken responsibility.

While nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on Haniyeh in Tehran, Israel was quickly blamed after pledging to kill Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders over the terrorist group's Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish State.

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said it is "Iran's duty to avenge Haniyeh's blood because he was martyred on our soil."

Iran's embassy in the United Kingdom called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council following the assassination of Haniyeh. 

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IDF reveals 4 reasons why it killed Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr

The Israel Defense Forces revealed Wednesday four reasons why it killed Fuad Shukr, the Hezbollah commander responsible for a drone strike that left 12 children and teens dead over the weekend in northern Israel. 

Shukr served as a senior adviser to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at the time of his death in an IDF strike on Tuesday in southern Beirut. The IDF says its fighter jets "eliminated the Hezbollah terrorist organization's most senior military commander [Shukr]" in Lebanon's capital city. 

Here’s why Israel’s military says it took out Shukr: 

The IDF says Shukr, who joined Hezbollah in 1985, rose up the ranks of the terrorist group to obtain a position close to its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. 

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"He planned Hezbollah terrorist attacks for 30 years and has Israeli, American, French and other civilians’ blood on his hands," the IDF said Wednesday. 

The Israeli military added that within Hezbollah, Shukr was its "senior advisor for strategic affairs and wartime operations." 

The IDF alleges that for the past ten months – since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, 2023 – Shukr has been "orchestrating rocket and UAV attacks" against Israelis. 

The attacks, they say, have forced "60,000 civilians in northern Israel to evacuate their homes." 

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The Israeli military has been engaged in frequent skirmishes along its northern border with Lebanon. 

The IDF says Shukr was the planner for this past weekend’s deadly Hezbollah rocket attack in the northern Israeli village of Majdal Shams. 

The scenes there on Sunday were ones of sadness, shock and devastation as the residents of the mostly Druze village buried the young victims of the Hezbollah strike that killed at least 12 and injured some 29 others — mostly ages between 10 and 20 as many of them innocently played soccer on Saturday. 

The IDF says Shukr was instrumental in developing precision-guided missiles. 

"These missiles have the potential to threaten the lives of millions of Israeli civilians," it added. 

Fox News' Andrea Vacchiano, Benjamin Weinthal and The Associated Press contributed to this report.