Israel's military publicly confirmed Monday evening that it has eliminated over 10 Hezbollah field commanders in recent operations, including successors killed within hours of taking command. Named sector chiefs include commanders of the Bint Jbeil, Tyre, Hajir, Jebsheet, al-Khiam, and Qana sectors, as well as three commanders of the elite Nassr Unit, the IDF said.
The IDF released the names of six Hezbollah sector chiefs and three commanders of the elite Nassr Unit it says have been eliminated, in the most detailed public accounting of its decapitation campaign against the group's southern Lebanon command structure. The military named Ali Abbas (Bint Jbeil sector), Kamil Younes (Tyre), Fouad Moussa (Hajir), Hussein Salameh (Jebsheet), Ali Khaik (al-Khiam), and Muslim Harb (Qana) as killed. It also detailed the destruction of the Nassr Unit's chain: commander Hajj Salama was killed first, and his two successors, Mahdi Bazi and Ashraf Saloum, were eliminated within less than two months. In a separate sequence, Nasser Shakir, commander of the Shqif sector, was killed — and his successor Ahmed Sablini, previously his deputy, was eliminated within 12 hours of taking command.
As The Zioneer reported at 18:36, the military had earlier in the evening confirmed eliminating over 10 field commanders and noted several successors were killed within hours of their appointments. At 18:29, the IDF had said over 1,300 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in Lebanon since the ceasefire took effect, and that the commanders killed included successors appointed after earlier eliminations. The public identification of all six sector commanders by name and sector is an unusual degree of disclosure, reflecting confidence in the targeting intelligence and the operational achievements against Hezbollah's southern command structure.
The Zioneer has previously reported on broader Israeli targeting of militant command chains. On June 7, The Zioneer reported the elimination of four Islamic Jihad commanders in a Gaza City strike, and on June 6, the elimination of a Hamas Nukhba commander who led the October 7 infiltration into Kibbutz Kisufim. These operations form part of a consistent Israeli campaign against the command-and-control layers of Iran-backed armed groups across multiple fronts.
The IDF's disclosure does not provide independent verification of the number of field commanders it says have been killed, nor does it specify the time frame over which the eliminations occurred beyond 'recent operations.' The military's claims have not been corroborated by Hezbollah or any independent source.
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