Israel is said to have carried out targeted killings of 40 opponents.

The Axis of Resistance refers to the armed militias and states that support and are supported by Iran. This includes Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthi movement in Yemen, and Hamas in Gaza. What they all have in common is that they are all, in one way or another, affiliated with Shia Islam and opposed to Israel.

Since Hamas' attack on Israel On October 7, at least 40 leaders and military commanders associated with the Axis of Resistance were targeted for assassination. It is written that this concerns about 34 attacks in which at least 13 civilians were killed. SVT Which refers to data from the non-profit organization, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, ACLED.

Although Israel has not taken responsibility for all the crimes, experts agree that Israel is behind them.

– The list of suspects begins and ends with Israel, Anders Persson, a political scientist and expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Linnaeus University, tells SVT.

According to Pearson, Israel uses targeted killings for several purposes: to respond to attacks and weaken opponents, but also as a way to show action in the face of domestic critics.

One of the most noticed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran on July 31. Haniyeh was in Iran to attend the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian, and according to Hamas, his residence was hit directly by a robot.

Less than a day earlier, Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fouad Shukr, was killed in a drone attack in Beirut. Shukr had been the top commander in southern Lebanon for decades, and Hezbollah’s counterattack came just over three weeks after a massive barrage of rockets was fired at military bases in northern Israel.

Another name on the list is Sayyed Radi Mousavi, a senior officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria last December. Mousavi was said to have been responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Iran and Syria, and was said to have been involved in Iran’s attempt to supply weapons to Hezbollah, among others.