The IDF eliminated Hezbollah's rocket chief, Ibrahim Muhammad Kabisi, in Beirut on Tuesday afternoon.
Additional Hezbollah commanders from the rocket unit were with Kabisi at the time of the strike.
Kabisi planned the kidnap terror attack in Mount Dov in the year 2000 in which Hezbollah terrorists kidnapped and killed St.-Sgt. Benyamin (Benny) Avraham, St.-Sgt. Adi Avitan and St.-Sgt. Omar Sawaid, whose bodies were returned to Israel for burial in 2004.
Kabisi was the chief of the terror group's various missile units, including precise missiles, the IDF said, adding that over the years and during the recent war, he had been responsible for the projectiles fired on the Israeli home front.
Kabisi, who joined Hezbollah in the 80s, held several roles in the terror group, during which he was responsible for the advancement of terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli citizens.
Previously, the IDF assassinated top sub-commanders of Kabisi, but they were operating outside of Beirut.
With one exception on July 30, it is only since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah reached a much higher crescendo last week that the IDF has been targeting the highest-level Hezbollah officials in Beirut itself.
On Friday, the IDF killed Hezbollah Radwan special forces commander Ibrahim Aqil and around 15 other sub-commanders, and on Monday, the air force attempted to assassinate Ali Karaki, Hezbollah’s third in command, the last remaining living member of a triumvirate of top military advisers to Hezbollah chief Hassan Sayyed Nasrallah.
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Estimates about the Attack
Reports were mixed about whether he survived the strike, but at the very least he appeared to be wounded, with estimates that he would not be able to act in a command capacity for some time.
Karaki was supposed to replace Aqil.
The military is trying to kill Hezbollah commanders so fast that it will harm the organization's ability to maintain a serious threat on the Israeli home front as Hezbollah continues to be pounded in many areas by thousands of IDF missiles.