After Eliminating Nasrallah, Israel Hunting For Remainder of Hezbollah’s Leadership
The Israel Hayom: “IDF eliminated Nabil Qaouk, a high-ranking Hezbollah official and deputy to the organization’s designated secretary-general.”
After Friday’s airstrike eliminated Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah alongside several of his top commanders, Israel has launched a hunt for the remainder of the Lebanon-based terror group’s leadership.
The Israeli military on Sunday announced the elimination of Hezbollah’s likely second-in-command, Nabil Qaouk. An Israeli airstrike “eliminated Nabil Qaouk, a high-ranking Hezbollah official and deputy to the organization’s designated secretary-general, the military announced Sunday,” the Israel Hayom newspaper reported.
“Media outlets sympathetic to Hezbollah reported that Qaouk had been killed in Dahieh, a southern suburb of Beirut. He served as the deputy to Safi Al-Din, who is positioned to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader who was eliminated on Friday,” the Israeli daily added.
🔴ELIMINATED: The Commander of Hezbollah's Preventative Security Unit and a member of their Executive Council, Nabil Qaouk, was eliminated in a precise IDF strike.
Qaouk was close to Hezbollah's senior commanders and was directly engaged in terrorist attacks against the State of… pic.twitter.com/dcvKLRkMbf
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 29, 2024
The Jerusalem Post reported the details of Kaouk’s elimination:
Nabil Kaouk, chief of Hezbollah’s preventive security unit and a member of the terror group’s council, was eliminated by the IDF in Lebanon on Saturday, the military announced on Sunday.
The strike was achieved by Israel Air Force jets guided by intelligence information, the IDF added.
Close to Hezbollah’s top echelon, Kaouk had been responsible for the advancement of terror activities against Israeli territory and Israeli citizens, the military further noted.
The IDF said Kaouk had enlisted into the ranks of the terror group in the 80s and had since filled various posts, including command roles in Lebanon’s south.
Most of the strikes targeting the Hezbollah command structure are concentrated around the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh in southern Beirut. The Israeli fighter jets are “carrying out precision strikes on Hezbollah targets in the group’s Beirut bastion of Dahieh,” Israel’s i24NEWS TV said Sunday.
There are reports of a follow-up airstrike on the Dahieh terrorist stronghold.
🚨BREAKING🚨 IDF strike in the Dahya in Beirut a few minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/vqtvxXqaDl
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) September 29, 2024
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday declared that it is carrying out military operations to “degrade and dismantle Hezbollah’s capabilities in Lebanon.”
“The IDF is continuing to strike terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon,” the military said in a press release Sunday. “Over the last few hours, IDF fighter jets struck Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon, including launchers directed toward Israeli territory, weapons storage facilities, and terrorist infrastructure sites.”
Overnight, Israeli fighter jets struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, the IDF says.
The targets included rocket launchers aimed at Israel and buildings used by Hezbollah, including where it stored weapons, according to the military. pic.twitter.com/WnFTRg4mNC
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) September 29, 2024
Nasrallah’s body recovered from the rubble
The body of Hezbollah chief Nasrallah was recovered on Sunday from the site of his bunker in southern Beirut. The corpse of the slain terrorist appears to be intact. According to Reuters, “sources said his body had no direct wounds and that it appeared the cause of death was blunt trauma from the force of the blast.”
Removing the bodies from Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah's bunker in Dahiyeh, Beirut after Israeli airstrikes.
Massive crater formed following airstrikes with about 85 bunker-buster bombs weighing between 2,000 pounds each, fired from IAF 69th Squadron F-15I jets. pic.twitter.com/ktjrVxcNx5
— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 29, 2024
The YNET reports:
The body of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been recovered from the site of an Israeli air attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs and is intact, a medical source and a security source told Reuters on Sunday.
While Hezbollah’s statement on Saturday confirming Nasrallah’s death did not say how exactly he was killed nor when his funeral would be, the two sources said his body had no direct wounds and that it appeared the cause of death was blunt trauma from the force of the blast.(…)
More than 80 bombs, with an average weight of one ton of explosive material per bomb, were dropped on the Hezbollah headquarters, which the bunker-busting munitions penetrated, though Israel has not confirmed the use of such bombs. Squadron 69 (“The Hammers”) led the attack in Operation New Order with its F-15I (“Thunder”) planes, which are considered the leading bombers of the IDF.
According to the IDF, the attack was carried out while the top brass of Hezbollah was at its headquarters and engaged in coordinating terrorist activities against the citizens of the State of Israel.
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There was a pretty big explosion in Southern Beirut about 1.5 hours ago, IDF mentioned they were going after the Hezbollah head of the chemical program. I assume they mean the guy who engineers their explosives and solid fuel for their rockets.
Been watching this guy’s live feed. Pretty straightforward coverage-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaxM0fYFxWA
Lots of birth certificates are being revoked.
Just to be on the safe side, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is taking no chances. He is in hiding at a, hopefully, safe and secret location.
Then the wall will slide aside and Mr. Phelps and Cinnamon will walk out.
Might be “safe and secret” for him.
I am quite confident IDF know where HE is, too.
He is wise to be thinking his name might be somewhere in the upper lines of IDF’s hitlist.
I think Hezbollah can now advertise for new fighters highlighting rapid advancement opportunities.
Some of the details about this operation is mind blowing.
I love the bit where they first targeted exit points out of the area to keep them trapped in the bunkers and then went full over kill to ensure they got their target ❤️
I am truly loving these Jews with balls! And to think it didn’t have to be his way! October 7 didn’t have to happen AND Hezbullah didn’t have to get involved.
All this destruction and carnage and death of Hamas and Hezbullah and it’s all on Hama’s head, it’s just glorious 😂😂
Talk about a massive own goal 😂
“Israel has launched a hunt for the remainder of the Lebanon-based terror group’s leadership.”
“He’s in the chiffarobe.”
The Hezbollah are sneaking into Syria…where the local population will make sure they die.
Israel needs to get their money, their bank accounts and their gold deposits. Likely in numbered accounts in Qatar or Dubai.