Abu Khalil Barji
Commander in Hezbollah's Radwan Force, the group's elite special operations unit. Killed by IDF airstrike in Majdal Selm, southern Lebanon.
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Israel killed him hunting Radwan Force commanders one by one. Hezbollah has always replaced its dead. Can it still?
Latest on Abu Khalil Barji
- Who was Abu Khalil Barji?
- A senior commander in Hezbollah's Radwan Force, the organisation's elite special operations unit. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Majdal Selm in southern Lebanon on 22 March 2026.Source: event
- What is the Radwan Force?
- Hezbollah's elite special operations unit, named after slain military chief Imad Mughniyeh. It specialises in cross-border infiltration, hostage operations, and coordinated assaults on military targets.
- How many Hezbollah commanders has Israel killed?
- Israel has killed multiple Radwan Force commanders since October 2023, including top commander Ibrahim Aqil (September 2024) and Abu Khalil Barji (March 2026). The campaign targets operational planners capable of cross-border assaults.Source: event
- Where is Majdal Selm Lebanon?
- A village in the Nabatieh Governorate of southern Lebanon, near the Israeli border. It was the site of the Israeli airstrike that killed Radwan Force commander Abu Khalil Barji on 22 March 2026.Source: event
- Radwan Force vs IRGC Quds Force?
- Both are elite units in the Iranian axis. Radwan Force is Hezbollah's Lebanese special operations unit focused on cross-border ground operations. The IRGC Quds Force is Iran's external operations branch that trains and funds proxies including Hezbollah.
Background
A senior commander in Hezbollah's Radwan Force, the organisation's elite special operations unit responsible for cross-border infiltration and coordinated assaults on military targets. The unit is named after Imad Mughniyeh (nom de guerre 'Hajj Radwan'), Hezbollah's military chief killed in Damascus in 2008. Its top commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed in a Beirut airstrike in September 2024.
Israel killed Barji in an airstrike on Majdal Selm in southern Lebanon on 22 March 2026, continuing a sustained campaign to decapitate Radwan Force leadership. Days later the IDF destroyed another Radwan command post, confirming the unit remains Israel's primary targeting priority in Lebanon.
The IDF frames Radwan commanders as the operational planners most capable of replicating October 7-style cross-border assaults against northern Israel. Each killing degrades institutional knowledge of Israeli border defences, terrain reconnaissance, and tunnel network operations. But Hezbollah has historically replaced commanders without losing operational capability for long; the question is whether the pace of Israeli strikes now exceeds the pace of regeneration.
