The IDF announced Saturday evening that Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah commander and former commander of the "Golan File," was eliminated in southern Lebanon over the weekend. Daqduq, once a bodyguard for Hassan Nasrallah, was wanted by the U.S. for his involvement in the 2007 kidnapping and killing of five American soldiers in Iraq.
The Israel Defense Forces officially confirmed on Saturday evening that senior Hezbollah commander Ali Musa Daqduq was eliminated in southern Lebanon over the weekend. The confirmation came at approximately 19:20 Jerusalem time, hours after the military issued a cryptic announcement at 18:59 that it had closed an important circle against a key figure behind attacks on Israeli and American personnel. The thread of reports began unfolding at 14:36, when The Zioneer first reported an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's Dahieh district that was initially described as targeting a Hezbollah command post, not an assassination. By 18:55, sources affiliated with the Shiite axis identified the target as senior official Ali al-Hajj. The IDF's 18:59 announcement, which disclosed no name, was followed by the ambassador's confirmation and the IDF's formal naming of Daqduq as the target.
Daqduq, a veteran operative who once served as head of Hassan Nasrallah's personal security detail and later commanded Hezbollah's "Golan File" unit, had been wanted by the United States for his involvement in the 2007 kidnapping and murder of five American soldiers in Iraq. He was arrested by U.S. forces that same year. The evolution of reporting across the thread shows initial uncertainty about the strike's nature: the first version at 14:36 described it as a strike on a Hezbollah command post, and an Israeli source denied it was a targeted killing. By 18:55, Shiite-axis sources named al-Hajj as the target, before the IDF's 18:59 announcement and the subsequent confirmation that Daqduq was the operative eliminated.
As The Zioneer reported on June 9, the IDF has sustained a campaign of precision strikes targeting Hezbollah's command-and-control apparatus, including the elimination of senior commanders such as Wissam Abu Riya, the commander of the "great jihad," in drone strikes in southern Lebanon. The IDF's announcement at 18:59 described Daqduq's elimination as the closing of an important circle, reflecting the operational significance of targeting a figure with direct ties to attacks that killed U.S. troops. His confirmed elimination marks one of the highest-profile operations in the current campaign.
The IDF has not disclosed the precise location or method of the strike that killed Daqduq. The military also has not commented on the discrepancy between the initial characterization of the Dahieh strike as a command post attack and the subsequent confirmation that a high-value individual was eliminated. It remains unclear whether Daqduq was killed in the same Dahieh strike or in a separate operation in southern Lebanon.
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