Israeli Commandos Capture Senior Hezbollah Terrorist in Lebanon

November 4, 2024

by: Joshua Marks ~ JNS

Monday, 4 October 2024 | The Israel Defense Forces’ [IDF] elite Shayetet 13 naval commando unit on Friday night captured a senior Hezbollah figure in Northern Lebanon.

The IDF confirmed the operation in Batroun, south of Tripoli, on Saturday.

The terrorist, identified as Imad Amhaz, is considered to be a “significant source of knowledge” in the terror group’s naval force, according to the Israeli military.

Amhaz is being interrogated by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504, which specializes in HUMINT, or human intelligence.

According to Lebanese reports, a 20-man team disguised as Lebanese security forces, including two soldiers in civilian clothes, arrived by sea on speedboats and raided a chalet on the coast, capturing Amhaz before leaving on the speedboats. The entire raid took only four minutes.

Hezbollah Commanders Killed

The IDF announced on Sunday morning that the commander of Hezbollah’s terror forces in the Khiam area, located in the Nabatieh Governorate of southern Lebanon, had been killed in an Israeli drone strike.

Farouk Amin Alasi led many anti-tank missile and rocket attacks on Israeli communities in the Galilee Panhandle, especially Metula, according to the army.

Additionally, the IDF eliminated Yousef Ahmad Nun, a Radwan Force company commander in the Khiam area who was responsible for rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on Israeli communities in the Galilee area and IDF troops operating in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah terrorist Jaafar Khader Faour was killed in the area of Jouaiyya in southern Lebanon, the IDF said on Saturday.

Faour, the commander of Hezbollah’s Nasser Unit’s missile and drone arrays, “was responsible for terror attacks carried out from eastern Lebanon, from which the first rocket launches toward Israeli territory were fired on October 8, under his command,” the IDF said, adding that he planned many terrorist attacks against Israel and IDF soldiers.

“As the commander of the Nasser Unit’s missiles and rockets array, Faour was responsible for multiple rocket attacks from his area toward the Golan, including the attack that resulted in the deaths of the Israeli civilians from Kibbutz Ortal, the attack on Majdal Shams, which killed 12 children and teenagers and injured many others, and the rocket attack on Metula last Thursday, which resulted in the deaths of 5 civilians,” the IDF stated.

On Friday, the IDF eliminated two Hezbollah commanders responsible for firing over 400 projectiles at Israel in October.

Mousa Izz al-Din, the commander of Hezbollah’s forces in the coastal sector, and Hassan Majid Daib, Hezbollah’s artillery commander in the coastal sector, were killed in an airstrike in the Tyre area.

2,000 Hezbollah Terrorists Killed Since Start of Ground Op

Some 2,000 Hezbollah terrorists have been killed by troops and in airstrikes since the start of Israel’s ground operation in southern Lebanon on October 1, according to IDF estimates.

Since Hezbollah began its near-daily attacks on Israel on October 8, 2023, a day after Hamas led a massacre of 1,200 people, nearly 3,000 Hezbollah members have been killed, according to Israeli military assessments.

100 Projectiles Fired Into Israel on Saturday

Hezbollah terrorists launched 100 projectiles (rockets, missiles and drones) from Lebanon into Israeli territory on Saturday, according to the IDF.

Sirens continued to sound on Sunday morning in the north and down into central Israel, with residents in the Menashe and Carmel areas running to bomb shelters, including Talmei Elazar east of Hadera.

Alerts were also heard in the Galilee and Golan Heights during the morning hours.

The IDF said two projectiles crossed into Israel from Lebanon following the sirens that sounded in the areas of Menashe and Carmel. The Israel Air Force shot down one projectile and the other fell in an open area.

Another 10 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory after alarms were heard in the western Galilee area, with some of the projectiles intercepted and the rest falling in open areas.

Seven people were killed and one person was seriously wounded on Thursday in two separate Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel’s north.

Posted on November 4, 2024

Source: (This article was originally published by the Jewish News Syndicate on November 3, 2024. Time-related language has been modified to reflect our republication today. See original article at this link.)

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