Ali Muhammad Fakhr al-Din
Senior Hezbollah commander Israel said it targeted in a 15 August strike in south Lebanon.
Israel said it struck senior Hezbollah commander Ali Muhammad Fakhr al-Din in south Lebanon before dawn on 15 August 2026, hours after a Hezbollah drone strike wounded three of its soldiers.
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Israel said its forces struck Ali Muhammad Fakhr al-Din, a senior Hezbollah commander, in South Lebanon in the early hours of 15 August 2026. Israeli officials named him the wave's first target; a day later they announced a second commander, Abu Hassan Alaa, killed in the same campaign.
Israel gave the strike as retaliation for a Hezbollah drone raid hours earlier that Left three of its soldiers seriously injured before dawn. Neither side has published independent confirmation of Fakhr al-Din's fate beyond Israel's own statement naming him as the target.
The wave he was named to open killed at least 11 people across South Lebanon over the two days that followed, among the sharpest tolls since the June de-escalation slowed the front.
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