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IDF names key operatives killed alongside Nasrallah in Beirut strike, says Hezbollah HQ was near UN school
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
More than 20 Hezbollah operatives were killed alongside the leader of the terror group, Hassan Nasrallah, in the Israeli airstrike on Beirut on Friday, the IDF says.
According to the military, among those killed at Hezbollah’s underground headquarters in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut were:
- Ali Karaki, the commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front.
- Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, head of Nasrallah’s personal security unit.
- Samir Tawfiq Deeb, an adviser to Nasrallah.
- Abd al-Amir Muhammad Sablini, responsible for Hezbollah’s force buildup.
- Ali Nayef Ayoub, responsible for Hezbollah’s firepower.
The IDF says that Jazini and Deeb were among the closest people to Nasrallah, and as such were “a significant source of knowledge regarding the ongoing functioning of the Hezbollah terror organization and Nasrallah in particular.”
The Hezbollah commanders and Nasrallah had been gathered in their main underground command center in Beirut when they were struck.
The IDF says the site was located beneath residential buildings, close to a United Nations-run school.
53 meters. That’s the distance between a @UN school and Hezbollah’s underground headquarters where Hassan Nasrallah was eliminated alongside 20+ additional terrorists.
The terrorists were in Hezbollah’s central headquarters, located in the heart of Beirut, embedded beneath… pic.twitter.com/eTor8mBGhU
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 29, 2024
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