Top Hezbollah commanders responsible for the coordination between the Lebanese terror group and Palestinian terror organizations were killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut earlier today, the IDF announces.
The military says the strike in the Lebanese capital targeted and killed Hamza Ibrahim Rakhin, the deputy commander of Hezbollah’s Unit 1800, along with the unit’s chief of operations and another operative.
“Unit 1800 is the unit responsible for coordination between the Hezbollah terror organization and Palestinian terror organizations in Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, and Judea and Samaria (West Bank),” the IDF says in a statement.
The military says that as part of his role, the deputy chief of Unit 1800 also oversaw the deployment of Palestinian terror operatives in southern Lebanon to confront Israeli troops.
In other strikes in Beirut today, the IDF says, it bombed Hezbollah headquarters and command centers.
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