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Report: Hezbollah officer killed in IDF strike had replaced commander killed by Israel in April
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The Hezbollah field commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon this evening is named by Al-Arabiya as Habib Maatouk.
According to the report, Maatouk had replaced Ali Ahmed Hussein, a senior commander in the terror group’s elite Radwan force, who was killed in an IDF strike in April.
Hussein held a rank equivalent to a brigade commander, and was charged with attacks on northern Israel’s Ramim Ridge, the IDF said at the time.