Hassan Jaafar al-Qasir, the son-in-law of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, was reportedly killed in an Israeli raid in Damascus Wednesday. This came after Nasrallah was killed last week in a massive Israeli strike in Beirut.
“Hassan Jaafar al-Qasir, the son-in-law of Hassan Nasrallah, was among two Lebanese victims of the Israeli raid which targeted an apartment in a residential building in the Mazze district of Damascus,” news agency AFP reported quoting the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The claim was confirmed by a source close to Hezbollah to AFP.
As per a report by Xinhua, at least four were injured in the Israeli strike which hit the first floor of a three-story building frequented by Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders.
Israel on Tuesday began what it labelled as a “limited” ground incursion against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which killed Nasrallah. His assassination followed two weeks of precise Israeli strikes that have destroyed weapons sites, eliminated half of Hezbollah’s leadership council and decimated its top military command.
