{"id":805224,"date":"2026-05-18T14:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/805224\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:16:14","slug":"idf-airstrike-killed-palestinian-islamic-jihad-commander-who-collaborated-with-hezbollah-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/805224\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF airstrike killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander who collaborated with Hezbollah terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IDF killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-888590\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palestinian Islamic Jihad<\/a> commander Wael Mahmoud Abd al-Halim in a targeted strike in Lebanon on Sunday night, the military announced on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The strike was conducted in the Baalbek area of Lebanon&#8217;s northwestern Bekaa region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Halim spearheaded the integration of PIJ terrorists into Hezbollah&#8217;s combat operations, according to the IDF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The military noted that &#8220;steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harm to civilians&#8221; before the strike.<\/p>\n<p>IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-896313\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eyal Zamir<\/a> described the operation as a \u201csignificant operational achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cIn every conversation I held with the hostages who returned, the name of the arch-terrorist Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, one of the chief perpetrators of the October 7 massacre and the head of Hamas\u2019 military wing, came up again and again,\u201d Zamir said in a statement released on Saturday. \u201cToday, we succeeded in eliminating him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF will continue to pursue our enemies, strike them, and hold accountable everyone who took part in the October 7 massacre,\u201d added Zamir. \u201cWe will not relent until we reach them all \u2013 this is our duty to all those who returned and to all citizens of the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amir Bohbot and Ariella Roitman contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Wael Mahmoud Abd al-Halim in a targeted strike in Lebanon on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":805225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4527,4783,4784,99,13192,50,43357],"class_list":{"0":"post-805224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-hamas","9":"tag-hezbollah","10":"tag-idf","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-lebanon","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-palestinian-islamic-jihad"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116596007692995543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}