The Israel Defense Forces said one of its fighter jets in Lebanon killed a senior Hamas commander who played a key role in launching terrorist attacks against Israel.Â
The Israeli airstrike targeting Hamas terrorists and their allies in Lebanon killed Hadi Mustafa Wednesday morning while he was traveling in a vehicle near the Rashidieh camp, Lebanon’s second-largest Palestinian refugee camp. Mustafa was “significant in directing terror squads and promoting attacks against Israel,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
Hamas has since confirmed Mustafa’s death, noting the organization lost a senior official of its Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in Lebanon. A Syrian man who was on his motorcycle near Mustafa’s vehicle was reportedly also killed.
The airstrike in Lebanon came a day after Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) has conducted military operations in Lebanon since Hezbollah fired rockets and artillery shells at Israel a day after Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion, targeting Hezbollah as well as Hamas units operating out of the Palestinian refugee camps.Â
Israel in January killed a Hamas deputy leader in a drone strike on a Hamas office in Beirut.
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