Tel Aviv: Israel claimed that it eliminated Hassan Mohammad Bashir, a senior commander in Hezbollah’s anti-tank array, in its strikes against militant infrastructure in the region.
Bashir was reportedly involved in orchestrating numerous attacks against Israeli forces and civilians, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in a post on X.
He had recently begun working closely with Hezbollah’s anti-tank units north of the Litani River, a strategic area in southern Lebanon, it was alleged.
“ELIMINATED: Hassan Mohammad Bashir, a senior commander in Hezbollah’s anti-tank array in the Hajir area. Bashir advanced hundreds of terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians. He commanded several terrorist cells & recently, he had begun integrating into the anti-tank array north of the Litani River,” the IDF stated in the post.
The IDF also confirmed the elimination of the top command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, including its commander and the head of its intelligence division.
The IDF, in a post, confirmed that the Israeli Air Force, under precise intelligence guidance from Military Intelligence
and the Navy’s Intelligence Branch, struck overnight in Bandar Abbas and eliminated Ali Reza Tangsiri, commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ Navy over the past eight years.
Tangsiri held key roles, “including overseeing the regime’s maritime terror activities and coordinating between Iranian military forces in the Gulf region”, Israel claimed.
Tangsiri also “led the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and promoted terror actions in the maritime domain, one of the main figures responsible for disrupting the global economy”, it was alleged in the post, as reported by ANI.
The IDF also confirmed the elimination of Hanam Rezaei, head of Iranian Navy’s intelligence division.
The Israelis described Rezaei as a “hub of knowledge in maritime intelligence” who engaged in intelligence gathering on regional countries and led collaborations with various intelligence organisations.
This operation joins dozens of eliminations of Iranian commanders, constituting “another severe blow to the Revolutionary Guards’ command and control systems and to its ability to conduct terror activities in the maritime domain against regional countries”, the IDF has claimed.
It has also been claimed that Israeli forces overran 350 Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites. More than 330 terrorists were eliminated during the operations earlier on Thursday, it was said.
Weapons and military equipment were located, including night vision devices, missile launchers, RPG rockets, magazines, Kalashnikov rifles, and a machine gun, the IDF said.