More than 20 Hezbollah operatives were killed alongside the leader of the terror group, Hassan Nasrallah, in the Israeli airstrike on Beirut on Friday, the Israeli Defense Force, IDF, says.
According to the military, among those killed at Hezbollah’s underground headquarters in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut were:
Ali Karaki, the commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front; Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, head of Nasrallah’s personal security unit; Samir Tawfik Diab, an adviser to Nasrallah; Abd al-Amir Muhammad Siblini, responsible for Hezbollah’s force buildup; and Ali Nawaf Ayoub, responsible for Hezbollah’s firepower.
The IDF says that Jazini and Diab were among the closest people to Nasrallah, and as such were “a significant source of knowledge regarding the ongoing functioning of the Hezbollah terror organization and Nasrallah in particular.”
The Hezbollah commanders and Nasrallah had been gathered in their main underground command center in Beirut when they were struck.
The IDF says the site was located beneath residential buildings, close to a United Nations-run school.
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