JERUSALEM, July 11 – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday that the man it killed earlier in the day in an airstrike in Lebanon was involved in advancing attacks against Israeli civilians.
Official and security sources in Lebanon reported earlier that Mohammad Hassan Shuaib was killed and five others were injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting a car in the town of Al-Numairiyah in southern Lebanon.
According to the IDF statement, the Israeli Air Force strike was based on precise intelligence from the IDF and Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security agency.
It claimed that Shuaib was “a Lebanese terror operative who was involved in advancing terror attacks in the northern arena (Lebanon and Syria) against Israeli civilians.”
As part of his activities, Shuaib operated to smuggle weapons into Israel “to carry out terror attacks in Israel and establish terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon,” the statement said.
Shuaib was also a significant figure in the weapons smuggling route from Iran to various locations in the northern arena and the West Bank, it said, adding that in this capacity, “he maintained ties with weapons dealers in Syria and Lebanon.”
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