JERUSALEM: The Israeli military stated on Monday (Oct 21) that the most recent commander answerable for funding the Lebanese Hezbollah group was “eradicated” in Syria.
The person, whose title was not launched, headed the Iran-backed Hezbollah’s Unit 4400 that’s “answerable for the transfers and the quantity of funds” to the group by way of Tehran’s oil gross sales, military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari stated in an announcement.
The commander was “eradicated” in Syria “just a few hours in the past”, he added.
The unit was beforehand led by Mohammed Jafar Ksir, also called Sheikh Salah, Hagari stated.
“He managed the terrorist organisation’s major supply of earnings for years till we eradicated him in a focused assault on the capital (Beirut) in early October,” he stated.
Earlier on Monday, Syria’s defence ministry introduced the dying of two individuals in a strike attributed to Israel and concentrating on a automobile in Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported {that a} strike focused a non-Syrian man who was driving his automobile in a neighbourhood the place a memorial was being held for Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by Israel final week in Gaza.
Unit 4400 is charged with transporting Iranian oil to Syria, which is then offered in Lebanon.
Its worth “is about tens of tens of millions of {dollars}”, Hagari stated.
Hamas ally Hezbollah has been firing rockets daily into northern Israel in assist of the Palestinian motion for the reason that warfare was triggered by Hamas’s Oct 7, 2023 assault on Israel.
Israel, which has been conducting a floor offensive for practically a month to push Hezbollah from its northern border, has in latest days ramped up its drive to hit the Iranian-backed group’s funds.
