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IDF Strike in Beirut Kills Hizbullah Missile Chief
(Times of Israel) Emanuel Fabian - Hizbullah fired 300 rockets at northern Israel on Tuesday, setting off sirens in Haifa, Safed, Nazareth, and Yokne'am as well as across the Galilee. In the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, Israel targeted and killed the head of Hizbullah's rocket and missile division, Ibrahim Qubaisi, alongside at least two other top commanders. "Over the years and during the war, he was responsible for the launches at the Israeli home front. Qubaisi was a central source of knowledge in the field of missiles, and was close to the senior military leadership of Hizbullah," the IDF said. Qubaisi also planned Hizbullah's kidnapping attack on Mount Dov in 2000, in which IDF soldiers Benyamin Avraham, Adi Avitan, and Omar Sawaid were killed and abducted. As Hizbullah continued to fire barrages of rockets deep into northern Israel, the IDF responded with airstrikes on hundreds of the sites where Hizbullah was hiding rockets and missiles ready for launch. A senior Israel Air Force officer said the widespread airstrikes were "changing the operational situation in the north, changing the reality." He said the IAF is working to strike "all of their rocket capabilities, all of them." Hizbullah still has rocket capabilities, but they have been harmed significantly, he said. The IDF has also assessed that many Hizbullah operatives are among the dead reported in Lebanon.