IDF says it killed key Hezbollah official responsible for 2007 attack on US troops |
Senior Hezbollah commander Ali Mussa Daqduq, mastermind of a January 2007 attack that killed five US troops in Iraq, was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon over the weekend, the IDF announced Sunday.
Daqduq was reported in November 2024 to have been killed in an Israeli strike in Syria, but he apparently survived.
According to the military, Daqduq was killed by an Israeli strike south of the Litani River in Lebanon on Friday.
Daqduq had held a series of senior positions in Hezbollah, “served as a source of knowledge with extensive operational experience,” and, in recent years, “played a central role in advancing terrorist attacks and combat operations against the State of Israel and IDF soldiers,” the IDF said.
The military said Daqduq’s roles included head of security for slain Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah; commander in the elite Radwan Force; a commander in the operations unit of Hezbollah’s Nasr Unit; head of infantry in Hezbollah; and the commander of the “Golan File,” Hezbollah’s entrenchment efforts in southern Syria.
“Over the past several years, Daqduq led much of Hezbollah’s operational planning against IDF soldiers along the Lebanon border,” the IDF said.
????ELIMINATED: Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah commander who held a series of 5 senior positions within Hezbollah. Daqduq played a central role in advancing terrorist attacks and combat operations against Israel and IDF soldiers. In 2007, he orchestrated the kidnapping and…........