IDF says commander of Iranian militia killed alongside Hezbollah official in Beirut

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Smoke seeps out from building rubble at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike on the Laylaki neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 1, 2024. (AFP)
Smoke seeps out from building rubble at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike on the Laylaki neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 1, 2024. (AFP)

The IDF says that it killed the commander of the Imam Hossein Division, an Iranian militia which operates alongside Hezbollah, in the same strike that killed the commander of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400 in Beirut.

The military names the commander as Daw Alfakher Hinawi.

It says the Imam Hossein Division has carried out numerous rocket and drone attacks on Israel amid the war, from Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.

The division was behind a drone that struck a school in Eilat in November 2023, causing damage.

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