The IDF eliminated a senior Hamas commander in Lebanon early Friday morning in a targeted airstrike on an apartment in the city of Sidon.
Hassan Farhat, a commander in the terror organization, was killed alongside family members in the aerial strike. Farhat previously operated within Jamaat Islamiya, a group affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon that was later integrated into Hamas's Lebanon branch.
An IDF spokesperson provided details of the operation, "The IDF attacked during the night and eliminated the terrorist Hassan Farhat, commander of the western sector of the Hamas terror organization in Lebanon.
During the war, Farhat orchestrated numerous terrorist plots against IDF forces and Israeli citizens. He was directly responsible for the rocket fire at Safed that killed Staff Sergeant Omar Sara Benjo and wounded several other soldiers on February 14, 2024.
The terrorist continued advancing terror plots against the state of Israel in recent months, and his activities posed a significant threat to Israel and its citizens."
This elimination follows another precision strike earlier this week in Beirut's Dahiyeh neighborhood, where a Hezbollah operative who served as a liaison with Hamas was killed. According to intelligence sources, he was planning an attack that was to be executed imminently.
A source with close ties to Hezbollah informed Agence France-Presse on Tuesday that the target of that operation was Hassan Badir, deputy head of the Palestinian portfolio within Hezbollah, who was at his residence with family members when the strike occurred. Badir is reportedly the brother of the terror organization's military communications chief.
