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

Smoke billows from a site targeted by Israeli shelling in the southern Lebanese village of Boustane near the border with Israel on July 18, 2024. (Kawnat Haju/AFP)
Smoke billows from a site targeted by Israeli shelling in the southern Lebanese village of Boustane near the border with Israel on July 18, 2024. (Kawnat Haju/AFP)

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.

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