An Israeli drone strike took out a “significant” Hamas operative in Lebanon Wednesday, military officials said.
The Israel Defense Forces released video footage of what it said was a strike on Hadi Ali Mustafa while he was in a car on a road on the outskirts of Tyre.
Mustafa was a “significant” terrorist who had orchestrated attacks against Jews around the world, according to the IDF.
Israel would “continue to operate against Hamas in every area in which it operates,” its military posted on X.
Hamas confirmed the death, saying Mustafa was part of its Qassam Brigades military wing.
The airstrike, which also killed a passing motorcyclist and injured two other people, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency, was the latest attack on Hamas and Hezbollah targets in the country, as Israel’s offensive expands beyond Gaza.
The strike came a day after a pair of Israeli airstrikes deep in Lebanon killed a Hezbollah member and one other person while injuring 20 others.
That barrage was retaliation for rocket strikes the militant group launched at Israeli military earlier Tuesday.
As attacks expanded beyond Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has resisted calls to reign in his military campaign, which has killed more than 30,000 people, according to officials controlled by Hamas.
Netanyahu has claimed that some 13,000 of those people are Hamas terrorists behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that left some 1,200 dead.
The US ally vowed to press on with an offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in area where more than half of the 2.3 Palestinian refugees displaced by the war had been told to seek shelter.
“You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is, that Oct. 7 doesn’t happen again,” Netanyahu said Sunday.
With Post wires