Israel says top commander in Iran’s Quds Force killed in Lebanon strike |
Israel said it killed a top commander in the Operations Unit of Iran’s Quds Force in a strike in northeast Lebanon on Thursday morning.
The joint Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet statement said target Hussein Mahmoud Marshad al-Jawhari was involved in recent years “in advancing terrorist plots against Israel in the Syria–Lebanon arena.”
It noted that the Operations Unit, also known as Unit 840, “is the unit that directs and is responsible for Iranian terrorist activity against the State of Israel.”
The Quds Force is the extraterritorial arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Lebanon’s state news agency said two people were killed in the Israeli drone strike that targeted a vehicle on a road leading to the Syrian border.
The military published drone footage of the strike.
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