Israeli Forces Neutralize Key Terrorist in Lebanon Strike

Qassem Salah Al-Husseini, a linchpin in Iran’s shadowy weapons smuggling network, was totally killed by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon’s Kfarkela on Thursday. The IDF and Shin Bet confirmed the kill Friday, a precision airstrike that turned Al-Husseini’s car into his coffin, per Al-Hadath reports.

This wasn’t just any target. Al-Husseini was a Lebanese operative, a cog in Iran’s Quds Force machine, plotting attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops along the northern front. The Quds Force, an arm of Iran’s IRGC, fuels chaos across the Middle East, propping up Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen, and militias in Syria and Iraq, Tehran’s so-called "axis." Al-Husseini was their point man, funneling weapons from Iran through Syria to Hezbollah’s outposts and into the West Bank.

“He was a key figure in a weapons smuggling route from Iran through Syria to various locations in the northern front and to the West Bank,” the IDF stated, underscoring his role in arming terror cells. With ties to Syrian and Lebanese smugglers, he operated under Quds Force orders, feeding the beast of anti-Israel operations.

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His elimination is “a significant blow to the ability of various terrorist organizations in the northern front and in Judea and Samaria to arm themselves and carry out attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF forces,” the IDF added. A single strike, a ripple effect, disrupting Iran’s terror pipeline.

Israel’s military presence persists past withdrawal deadlines, targeting Hezbollah’s infrastructure after the Israel-Iran war cooled. Meanwhile, Tehran’s struggling to keep its arms flowing. A Western intelligence source told The Jerusalem Post in April that Iran’s land routes, choked since Bashar al-Assad’s fall, forced them to try smuggling weapons to Hezbollah via Beirut’s port. Those efforts? Largely thwarted.

Al-Husseini’s death marks another checkmate in Israel’s relentless campaign to sever Iran’s tentacles. 

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