Scene of strike. (Screenshot from IDF footage.)
The IDF announced today (Wednesday) that it eliminated Fares Qasem, a central terrorist for Palestinian Islamic Jihad operations, along the Syrian-Lebanese border.
According to the IDF, Qasem was in charge of drafting operational plans for PIJ in Syria and Lebanon, and played a central role in recruiting Palestinian terrorists for the Hezbollah terrorist organization to carry out operations against Israel from within Lebanon.