From the Liveblog of
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Saudi Hezbollah fighter reportedly killed in Lebanon
Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
A Saudi national fighting for Hezbollah was killed in Lebanon yesterday, according to the Lebanese paper, L’Orient Le Jour, seemingly marking the first such case of a citizen of the kingdom being killed in Israel’s war against the Iran-backed terror group.
The man, named as Omran Karim, hailed from the Shiite-majority city of Qatif on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. He worked as a dentist in Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh suburb, a Hezbollah stronghold, according to the paper.
The first Saudi martyred in southern Lebanon..
The martyred resistance dentist "Omran Karim" from the city of Qatif, ascends as a martyr while confronting the occupation pic.twitter.com/tAC0c5S7an— Gaza War BD (@GazaWar_BD) November 9, 2024
Karim was reportedly the son of Ahmad Ibrahim al-Moughassil, aka Abu Omran, head of Hezbollah’s branch in Saudi Arabia and the mastermind of a 1996 terror attack that killed 19 US soldiers in the kingdom.
Al-Moughassil was arrested in Beirut by the Saudi intelligence service in 2015 and extradited to Saudi Arabia.
