The IDF says it killed the commander of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, which is tasked with delivering weapons from Iran and its proxies to Lebanon.
Muhammad Ja’far Qassir, who headed Unit 4400, was killed in a strike carried out by fighter jets in Beirut, according to the military.
The IDF says Qassir was “one of the senior leaders of the Hezbollah terror organization and the most dominant [person] in the Iran-Hezbollah-Syria terror axis, and is considered close to the Iranian regime.”
He was involved in hundreds of “strategic” weapons smuggling operations from Iran to Hezbollah, and was among those who advanced the terror group’s precision missile project.
Qassir served as head of Unit 4400 for some 15 years, the IDF says.
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