Ali Jaafar Maatouk was operations officer in unit responsible for attacks on Ramim Ridge area, according to IDF, which says several more Hezbollah members were killed alongside him
The Israel Defense Forces late Thursday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force in southern Lebanon, the military and the terror group said.
According to the IDF, Ali Jaafar Maatouk, also known as Habib Maatouk, was an operations officer in the Radwan force’s Hajjar regional unit.
The Hajjar unit is responsible for attacks on northern Israel’s Ramim Ridge region, an area that has come under repeated rocket, missile, and explosive-laden drone fire amid the war against the Hamas terror group in the south.
Security sources told Reuters that Maatouk had replaced another commander in the Radwan unit, Ali Ahmed Hussein, who was killed in an Israeli strike in April.
Another operations officer in the same Radwan unit, along with several more Hezbollah operatives, were killed in the same strike on Thursday night, in the southern Lebanon town of Jmaijmeh, the IDF said
The IDF said the commanders and operatives carried out numerous attacks against Israel.
A separate strike targeted a Hezbollah command room in the nearby town of Majdal Selm, the IDF said. Fighter jets also struck a building used by the terror group in Shaqra, the military added.
Hezbollah announced the death of Maatouk, but did not detail his rank or role in the terror group.
Also Thursday evening, two suspected drones that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon were shot down by air defenses, the IDF said.
Additional sirens had sounded over fears of falling shrapnel following the interceptions.
Earlier Thursday, a Hamas commander and another Hezbollah operativewere killed in separate strikes in Lebanon
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