Hezbollah said to appoint two top Jihad Council members to replace slain commander

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Rescuers sift through the rubble at the scene of an Israeli strike that targeted Hezbollah terror group commanders meeting in Beirut's southern suburbs a day earlier, as search and rescue operations continue on September 21, 2024. (AFP)
Rescuers sift through the rubble at the scene of an Israeli strike that targeted Hezbollah terror group commanders meeting in Beirut's southern suburbs a day earlier, as search and rescue operations continue on September 21, 2024. (AFP)

Hezbollah has appointed senior officers Ali Karaki and Talal Hamiya to lead the terror group’s operations division following the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil in Beirut yesterday, the Saudi news outlet Al-Hadath reports.

Both officers already sit on the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s top military body.

Karaki is the head of Hezbollah’s southern command, responsible for the terror group’s military activity in south Lebanon, and Hamiya is the head of Hezbollah’s Unit 910, the terror group’s foreign operations unit, responsible for attacks abroad.

The Jihad Council was believed to have had seven members, although now it is down to five following the killings of Aqil, head of Hezbollah operations and the Radwan Force, and Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s military chief, who was killed in July.

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