Hezbollah confirmed on Tuesday evening that Israel had killed one of its top commanders, Ibrahim Qobeissi, in an airstrike that rocked the southern suburbs of Beirut earlier that day.
“Qobeissi was a significant source of knowledge in the field of missiles and had close ties to senior military leaders in Hezbollah,” the Israel Defense Forces stated, naming him as the head of the group’s missile and rocket force.
Hezbollah’s War Media released a detailed tribute to Qobeissi, also known as “Hajj Abu Musa.” He was described as a central figure in the Islamic “Resistance”, born on October 10, 1962, in the southern Lebanese town of Zibdeen.
Qobeissi’s involvement in Hezbollah dates back to 1982 when he joined the movement in its early stages. Over the years, he took on a range of key organizational responsibilities and assumed critical positions within the Islamic “Resistance.”
Between 1998 and 2000, Qobeissi was instrumental in planning and overseeing numerous operations against Israeli forces, focusing on the Iqlim region. From 2001 to 2018, he commanded Hezbollah’s Badr military unit and played a central role in leading the group’s rocket formations.
Lebanese authorities reported that six people were killed and fifteen injured in the attack that targeted Qobeissi, the head of the Iran-backed militant group’s missile division.
Tuesday’s strike marks the latest in a series of killings of senior Hezbollah figures. On Saturday, an Israeli attack on Beirut killed the group’s special operations commander, Ibrahim Aqil, along with fifteen other operatives, including what Israel described as the “senior chain of command of the Radwan Force,” an elite unit within Hezbollah.
