Hezbollah Radwan anti-tank missile commander killed in Israeli strike

An Israeli airstrike in Southern Lebanon killed a commander in the Hezbollah Radwan Force’s anti-tank missile system, the IDF said on Monday.

Riad Rida Ghazzawi died in the Sultaniyeh area in the Bint Jbeil District. According to the army, he planned and executed a significant number of terrorist attacks, including firing anti-tank missiles at Israeli civilians and at IDF troops operating in Southern Lebanon.

An unnamed Hezbollah Command Unit terrorist was killed in an additional strike in the Safad El Battikh area, also in the Bint Jbeil District, the IDF said. The terrorist was eliminated in an attack on many terrorist infrastructure sites there from where he was operating. The terrorist was responsible for smuggling weapons to Hezbollah cells in the area and for attempts to rehabilitate the Iranian terrorist proxy’s operations in the Bint Jbeil area.

“These eliminations are part of a continued IDF effort to damage Hezbollah’s military capabilities and to impair the group’s ability to rehabilitate itself,” the army said.

Earlier on Monday, the military announced that the Israeli Air Force killed Abu Ali Rida, the Hezbollah commander of the Baraachit area in the Bint Jbeil District. He led the planning and carrying out of rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on IDF troops and oversaw terrorist activities of Hezbollah operatives in the area.

Meanwhile, soldiers are continuing ground operations in Southern Lebanon that began on Oct. 1, dismantling terrorist infrastructure, locating weapons and killing terrorists. Over the past day, troops struck a terrorist operating inside a structure in a town near the border and many secondary explosions were observed following the strike.

Hezbollah terrorists continued their daily rocket, missile and drone launches from Lebanon at Israeli territory on Monday, after firing 105 projectiles the previous day, according to IDF estimates.

The IDF said that it struck a Hezbollah launcher in Lebanon used to fire 30 rockets at the Upper Galilee on Monday morning. A separate 30-rocket barrage was launched at the Western Galilee later in the morning, with the IDF saying that some of the rockets were intercepted, while other fell in open areas.

Also on Monday morning, the IAF intercepted four enemy drones—two launched from Lebanon and two from Iraq.