IDF:  We eliminated Jaafar Khader Faour, Hezbollah Commander whose rockets killed 18 in Israel

LEBANON – The Israeli Defence Forces, IDF says it has eliminated Hezbollah Commander of the Nasser Unit’s Missiles and Rockets Array, Jaafar Khader Faour, whose rockets killed at least 18 people in Israel.

In a statement, the IDF Spokesman,Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said he was killed when an IAF fighter jet conducted a targeted strike in the area of Jouaiyya in southern Lebanon.

Besides Jaafar Khader Faour, the IDF said the commander of the drones array in the unit was equally killed.

“Faour was responsible for terror attacks carried out from eastern Lebanon, from which the first rocket launches toward Israeli territory were fired on October 8th, under his command.

“Faour planned many terror attacks against the Israeli Homefront and IDF soldiers”, he said, adding as the commander of the Nasser Unit’s missiles and rockets array, Faour was responsible for multiple rocket attacks from his area toward the Golan, including the attack that resulted in the deaths of the Israeli civilians from Kibbutz Ortal, the attack on Majdal Shams, which killed 12 children and teenagers and injured many others, and the rocket attack on Metula last Thursday, which resulted in the deaths of 5 civilians.