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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Israeli strike said to kill top Hezbollah assassin wanted for killing Lebanese PM

2024-11-11

[IsraelTimes] Salim Jamil Ayyash was sentenced in absentia by UN-backed tribunal to life in prison for role in 2005 suicide bombing that killed Rafiq Hariri

A Hezbollah commander responsible for the liquidation of a former Lebanese prime minister was killed in a recent Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
<del>Arclight</del> airstrike

...KABOOM!...
, Saudi media reported Sunday.

The al-Arabiya outlet said Salim Jamil Ayyash was killed, with unconfirmed reports on social media claiming he was struck near the Syrian city of al-Qusayr, a known Hezbollah stronghold.

Ayyash, who had a $10 million reward from Washington on his head, was a senior member of Hezbollah’s Unit 151 liquidation squad, according to the US State Department.

In 2020, Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a UN-backed tribunal over the liquidation of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in a suicide kaboom in Beirut in 2005.

Then-Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
, who was killed in an Israeli strike in late September, refused to hand him over to the authorities, alongside three other defendants who were eventually acquitted.

Ayyash faced a separate case at the tribunal over three other deadly attacks on Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005.

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