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IDF confirms eliminating senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force
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The IDF says it eliminated a senior field commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force in an airstrike in southern Lebanon overnight.
Ali Ahmed Hussein, according to the IDF, held a rank equivalent to a brigade commander, and was charged with attacks on northern Israel’s Ramim Ridge, an area that has come under repeated rocket, missile, and drone attacks amid the war.
“As part of his role, he was responsible for the planning and execution of terror attacks in the Ramim Ridge area against the Israeli home front,” the IDF says.
Husseinwas struck in the southern Lebanon town of as-Sultaniyah. According to the IDF, another two Hezbollah operatives under his command were killed in the strike.
מטוסי קרב של חיל האוויר תקפו וחיסלו הלילה באזור א-סלטניה שבלבנון את עלי אחמד חסין, מפקד מרחב ההתקפה חג׳יר (רכס רמים) של כוח רדואן בארגון הטרור חיזבאללה.
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