The Israeli military stated Wednesday it had killed the deputy head of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Power, Mustafa Ahmad Shahadi, in a strike within the Nabatieh space of south Lebanon.

“In an intelligence-directed strike, the Israeli air drive struck and eradicated Mustafa Ahmad Shahadi, deputy commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan Forces, within the space of Nabatieh,” the military stated in an announcement, including that Shahadi had beforehand run Radwan operations in Syria and overseen “terror assaults in southern Lebanon”.

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