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Israeli strike reported to kill top Hezbollah assassin Ayyash, wanted by US, UN
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Salim Jamil Ayyash, who was sentenced for his role in a 2005 suicide bombing in Beirut that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. (US Rewards for Justice)
The Saudi Al-Arabiya outlet reports that Hezbollah commander Salim Jamil Ayyash was killed in a recent Israeli airstrike.
Unconfirmed reports on social media claim that Ayyash was killed in a strike near the Syrian city of al-Qusayr.
Ayyash, who had a $10 million reward from Washington on his head, was a senior member of Hezbollah’s Unit 151 assassination squad, according to the US State Department.
In 2020, Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a UN-backed tribunal over the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in a suicide bombing in Beirut in 2005.
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