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On August 5, local time, the Israeli Air Force issued a statement saying that it had recently used fighter jets to attack and kill Abed Alzeri, the head of Hamas' economic department in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas leaders have been killed in succession, and the "shadow war" in the Middle East has spread, which continues to attract international attention. An expert told Nandu reporters that Israel is trying to weaken the "resistance axis" led by Iran while warning Iran. According to sources, Iran may launch an attack on Israel as early as the 5th, and Lebanon's Hezbollah may be involved.

On August 4, Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepted a rocket fired at the Galilee region in northern Israel. Xinhua News Agency/AP

Hamas senior officials were killed in attacks one after another

Nandu previously reported that on July 31, local time, the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ismail Haniyeh, was attacked and killed during his visit to Iran. The next day, the Israeli military issued a statement saying that it had recently attacked the head of Hamas' military department, Mohammed Dave, killing him.

On August 5, local time, the Israeli Air Force issued a statement saying that it had recently used fighter jets to attack and kill Abed Alzeri, the head of Hamas' economic department in the Gaza Strip.

After Ismail Haniyeh was killed in the attack, Ding Long, a professor at the Institute of Middle East Studies of Shanghai International Studies University, told a reporter from Nandu that Israel hated Iran and its "proxies" very much and wanted to retaliate. When everyone thought they would take measures to increase military strikes against Hezbollah, Houthi armed forces, and Hamas, they chose a "decapitation" action to retaliate, and at the same time warned Iran and weakened the "resistance axis" led by Iran.

As the "proxy war" in the Middle East continues, the Iraqi Prime Minister's Media Office issued a statement on the 4th local time saying that Iraqi Prime Minister Sudani emphasized in a phone call with US Secretary of State Blinken that day that preventing the escalation of the regional situation depends on stopping Israel's aggression against the Gaza Strip and preventing the conflict from spreading to Lebanon and other places.

Middle East 'shadow war' continues to spiral out of control

The "shadow war" in the Middle East continues to spiral out of control, with all parties engaging in confrontation through "proxies" and indirect actions, and the flames of war continue to spread.

According to a report by the Lighthouse TV station affiliated with Hezbollah on the 4th, Hezbollah fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at northern Israel in the early morning of the same day. The report said that this was a response to Israel's attack on southern Lebanon on the 3rd. On the 5th local time, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health reported that the town of Mes Jabal in the south of the country was attacked by an Israeli drone in the early morning of the same day, killing two people.

Although the Israeli military has not yet commented on the assassination of Haniyeh, according to Iran's Mehr News Agency, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement on August 3 local time saying that the operation was designed and implemented by Israel and supported by the US government.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stressed that Iran will avenge Haniyeh and that "the Israeli regime will definitely be severely punished at the appropriate time and place."

Earlier, Hamas issued a statement condemning the attack on Haniyeh and vowed to retaliate against the attackers. However, Ding Long believes that Hamas's strength has been weakened, and even if it retaliates, the intensity and destructive power will not be particularly great.

On the 3rd, the US media quoted US and Israeli government officials as saying that Iran may launch an attack on Israel as early as the 5th, and Lebanon's Hezbollah may be involved. The United States, Britain, France and other parties called on the relevant parties to exercise restraint and avoid escalation of the situation.

Written by: Liang Lingfei, a reporter from Southern Metropolis Daily