Israel says it killed Iranian commander who helped fund, arm Hamas

The Israel Defense Forces connected Saturday said it had killed an Iranian commandant who for years helped limb and money Hamas connected behalf of the regime. 

Saeed Izadi, commandant of the Palestine Corps successful the Quds Force, was killed aboriginal Saturday during an Israeli onslaught successful the metropolis of Qom. 

Izadi was besides "one of the orchestrators" of the Oct. 7, 2023, unprovoked Hamas onslaught connected Israel, according to BBC News. 

"The humor of thousands of Israelis is connected his hands," IDF main Eyal Zamir said successful a statement, calling it a "tremendous quality and operational achievement."

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Smoke rises pursuing an Israeli onslaught connected a Tehran lipid refinery, June 15.  (West Asia News Agency via Reuters)

Following the sidesplitting of Mohammed Sinwar, the caput of Hamas’ equipped wing, astatine a infirmary successful Gaza successful May, a associated cognition betwixt the IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) discovered an underground bid halfway underneath the hospital.

Israeli troops recovered documents successful the bid halfway revealing that Hamas’ subject helping had maintained interaction with Izadi successful caller months, including Sinwar. 

Correspondence betwixt Sinwar and Izadi readying an cognition successful which Izadi would limb Hamas with $21 cardinal successful weapons followed by an further $25 cardinal successful weapons was recovered successful the bid center, the IDF said. 

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The IDF recovered correspondence betwixt Izadi and Hamas successful an underground bid halfway successful Gaza.  (IDF)

"Due to the intensive efforts of the Southern Command, the Intelligence Directorate and the ISA, these 2 projects to limb Hamas’s subject helping successful the Gaza Strip with precocious weapons worthy tens of millions of dollars did not travel to fruition," the IDF said. 

Izadi had been sanctioned by the U.S. and U.K. implicit his ties to the Palestinian militant faction Islamic Jihad, which besides helped program the Oct. 7 panic attacks. 

The IDF said aboriginal Saturday that it besides had killed a 2nd Iranian commander, Benham Shariyari, during a onslaught connected his conveyance successful Tehran.

IDF forces are seen operating successful Rafah, a metropolis successful the Gaza Strip. (IDF Spokesman's Office)

Shariyari had been "responsible for each weapons transfers from the Iranian authorities to its proxies crossed the Middle East," including missiles and rockets launched by Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis astatine Israel, the IDF said. 

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"Since the outbreak of the war, the IDF has been moving to dismantle the subject capabilities of the Hamas violent organization. The IDF volition proceed to enactment against immoderate effort by the Iranian authorities to limb and money the violent organizations that endanger the State of Israel and its civilians," the IDF said. "The elimination of Izadi constitutes a important stroke to the Iranian regime’s weapons proviso and panic financing network."