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

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-strike-said-to-kill-top-hezbollah-assassin-wanted-for-killing-lebanese-pm/

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  1. >A Hezbollah commander responsible for the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister was killed in a recent Israeli airstrike, 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 assassination squad, according to the US State Department.

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

    >Then-Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, 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.

  2. Lebanon should be happy if it is confirmed that assassin that killed their PM was taken out of commission by Israel.

  5. Do they get to claim the FBI bounty? Or is that just taken off their tab?

  6. Great job Israel, I wonder how many hezbullys are left?

  7. Damn Israel how many of these bounties are you going to be collecting?!?!

  8. Will sympathy protests break out at Columbia or Harvard? When do the Iranian payroll direct deposits arrive?

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

    Israel keeps earning so many bounties. Biden really needs to stop tying Israel’s hands.

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