September 29, 2024 | 13.03
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“Eliminated” Nabil Qaouk. Last blow for Hezbollah. This morning The Israeli forces (IDF) have announced the killing of the man described as the head of the ‘preventive security unit’ of the Lebanese Hezbollahorphans of their general secretary Hasan Nasrallah. Not even a word, for now, from Hezbollah, which instead confirmed the killing of Nasrallah, who died in an Israeli raid on Friday in Beirut.
In these hours Qaouk’s name has been circulating among those who have been speculated to replace Nasrallah. He was, according to information from the Israeli military, on the executive council of Hezbollah and was close to the leadership of the Party of God. A veteran, with the group since the 1980s. According to reports from the Times of Israel, he was killed in a raid in Beirut last night, a day after Nasrallah. According to the IDF, Qaouk was “involved in terrorist attacks against the State of Israel and its citizens”. He had been, among other things, military commander of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
In 2020 he was hit by US sanctions. The United States highlighted its participation on behalf of Hebzollah in commemorations of slain members of the Party of God and also in memory of Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards killed in a drone raid USA in Iraq in January four years ago.
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