Israel has claimed responsibility for the death of a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and was allegedly behind the assassination of a key Hamas leader in Iran.

Israel said on Tuesday that it killed Fuad Shukr, an advisor to the secretary general of Hezbollah, in retaliation for a rocket attack in Golan Heights that killed 12 people, including children.

“The IDF will not tolerate terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians,” an IDF spokesperson said.

'I don't think all out war is inevitable, but it's also not, necessarily, unlikely,' Dr. Casey Babb of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.{ai:summary}<p>Israel's shadow loomed large over Lebanon, a deadly reckoning served cold. In response to a brutal rocket strike, they took out Fuad Shukr, a Hezbollah cornerstone, along with a Hamas chief in Iran, sending a message wrapped in blood and vengeance. </p><p>The IDF declared zero tolerance for threats against its people, keeping the deadly dance of conflict alive. #military</p>

How Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah, assassination of key Hamas leader in Iran could escalate

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