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High-ranking Hezbollah official killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut

Kashir was for 15 years in charge of "Unit 4400", which was in charge of transporting weapons from Iran and Syria

Newsroom October 2 12:00

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced today that they have killed Mohammed Jaffar Qassir, who was in charge of arms transfers from Iran to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

As Colonel Avihai Adrai, an Israeli army spokesman for the Arabic-speaking public, said in a post on the X (formerly Twitter) platform, Qassir was for 15 years in charge of “Unit 4400,” which was in charge of transferring weapons from Iran and Syria.

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