Senior Hezbollah official Nabil Qaouk was killed in an Israel Defense Forces airstrike on Saturday in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, the military announced on Sunday morning, as it continued its punishing campaign against the Lebanon-based terror group.
According to the IDF, Qaouk was the commander of Hezbollah’s “preventive security unit” and a senior member of the terror group’s central council.
He was considered close to Hezbollah’s leadership “and was directly involved in advancing terror attacks against the State of Israel and its citizens, including in recent days,” the military added.
Qaouk joined Hezbollah in the 1980s, and previously served as deputy head and head of the southern Lebanon area in the executive council, as well as deputy head of the executive council.
Also Sunday, Hezbollah confirmed the death of Ali Karaki, the commander of the Southern Front, responsible for the terror group’s military activity in south Lebanon.
Following the announcement of Karaki’s death, a purported image of the commander circulated on social media.
Karaki was killed alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a massive IDF strike on Beirut on Friday. He had survived an Israeli assassination attempt earlier last week.
Earlier on Sunday, the IDF said that fighter jets struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon overnight, including rocket launchers aimed at Israel and buildings used by the terror group to store weapons.
Since Israel escalated its airstrikes on the Hezbollah terror group last week, more than 630 people have been killed and more than 2,000 wounded in Lebanon, according to the country’s health ministry. At least a quarter of those killed have been women and children, according to Lebanese health officials.
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