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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
IDF says target of southern Lebanon strike was commander in Hezbollah’s aerial defense unit
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The IDF says the target of a drone strike in the Nabatieh area in southern Lebanon today was a Hezbollah commander in the terror group’s aerial defense unit.
He is identified by the military as Hassan Abbas Izzedine. He was killed in the strike on a car.
The IDF says he was a “significant source of knowledge” in Hezbollah’s aerial defense unit and led attempts to rebuild the unit’s infrastructure that was targeted during the war.
Izzedine also worked to procure new equipment for the unit, which posed a threat to Israeli military aircraft, the IDF adds.
