A senior Hamas commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the coastal Lebanese city of Sidon overnight, the military announces.
Hassan Farhat had headed Hamas’s forces in the western sector of Lebanon, according to the IDF.
The Israeli airstrike had hit an apartment building in Sidon.
During the war, the military says Farhat advanced numerous attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops, and was responsible for a rocket attack on the Northern Command base in Safed on February 14, 2024, killing Staff Sgt. Omer Sarah Benjo and wounding other troops.
“The terrorist was involved in advancing terror attacks against the State of Israel in recent months, and his activities constituted a threat to the State of Israel and its citizens,” the IDF says.
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