The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), in a statement on Thursday, confirmed Bidi was targeted by Israeli military aircraft in the Southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Tuesday.
Bidi was stationed in a building adjacent to the building where Shukr was hit in the Israeli attack.
Bidi was a top IRGC advisor who had been assigned to missions in Syria and Lebanon.
IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami expressed his condolences for the martyrdom of Bidi, stressing the assassination of the military advisor will further fuel the “fire of anger and revenge” towards Israel.
He warned that Israel’s recent crimes in West Asia provoke more wrath among the resistance fighters to take revenge against the Zionist regime.
Since 2011, Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy, as a result of which Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and other terror groups emerged in the country.
Iran maintains an advisory mission in the war-ravaged country at the request of Damascus, helping it in the face of foreign-backed terrorism. Several members of the IRGC have so far been martyred in the battle against terrorists in Syria.
Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah on Wednesday confirmed that its senior commander Shukr was killed in the Israeli air raid in Beirut.
Hezbollah announced in a statement on Wednesday that “the great jihadist commander brother Fuad Shukr (Hajj Mohsen) was present” in the building targeted by “the Zionist enemy”.
Announcing his death, the group added that Shukr’s presence was “a distinctive force for resistance”, and stressed their leader, Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, would make an address on the occasion of Shukr’s funeral on Thursday.
Shukr, also known as Al-Hajj Mohsen, was born in Nabatieh in Baalbek in Eastern Lebanon. He was among Hezbollah’s founders after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
Hezbollah and the Zionist regime have been exchanging fire along Lebanon’s Southern border almost on a daily basis since the war in the Gaza Strip began in October last year. The resistance movement has stressed that it will continue the attacks until there is a ceasefire in the besieged enclave.
The tensions have flared following a rocket attack that killed 12 people and injured 40 others in the town of the Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday, raising fears of regional escalation.
Hezbollah has “categorically denied” responsibility for the strike. There have been claims that a failed Israeli interceptor missile may have caused the incident.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant have previously pledged to “turn Beirut into Gaza”.
In response, Secretary-General of Hezbollah Seyed Hassan Nasrallah warned that the powerful group is prepared for a full-scale conflict with Israel.
The enemy knows it must expect us on land, in the air, and at sea, and if war is imposed, the resistance will fight without constraints, rules, or limits,. There will be no place safe from our missiles and drones.
Seyed Hassan Nasrallah
He stated the number of Hezbollah’s operatives who are ready to fight against the Zionist regime has exceeded 100,000.
Author: Qasry Ehsan
Source: https://farsnews.ir/Qaysar/1722502430968984827/Iranian-Military-Advisor-Martyred-in-Israeli-Raid-on-Beirut
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