The IDF confirms that Ibrahim Qubaisi, the commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile division, was killed in an airstrike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut a short while ago.
In a statement, the military says that Qubaisi was killed in an airstrike carried out by fighter jets in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut.
Alongside Qubaisi there were other senior officers in Hezbollah’s rocket and missile division at the apartment where he was killed, the IDF says.
Qubaisi commanded Hezbollah’s various rocket and missile units, including its precision-guided missile unit, according to the military.
“Over the years and during the war, he was responsible for the launches at the Israeli home front. Qubaisi was a central source of knowledge in the field of missiles, and was close to the senior military leadership of Hezbollah,” the IDF says.
He had joined Hezbollah in the 1980s, and had served in several other significant roles, including in a senior position in the terror group’s operations division and as the head of the Badr regional division, the IDF adds.
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