Israel has been chasing those associated with the Palestinian file in Lebanon for 25 years

“The Middle East” wrote: The Israeli assassination of the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Badir, is included in the southern suburb of Beirut, at dawn on Tuesday, as part of a series of prosecutions carried out by Israel for at least 25 years of Palestinian leaders, and leaders of the party concerned with coordination and communication with the Palestinian factions, along with dozens of assassinations against field leaders. Standing at the assassinations is placed by Lebanese security sources as part of Israel’s focus on targeting figures who play a role in military operations or logistical coordination with the Palestinian interior. The sources reveal to Asharq Al -Awsat that these assassinations often coincide with a military escalation or political crises, to send warning messages to the Palestinian factions and their allies, pointing out that Israel aims, through these operations, to weaken the Palestinian factions operating in Lebanon, and prevent them from using Lebanese territory as a rear base for military actions.










From Beirut to Sidon and refugee camps, the assassinations were not limited to field leaders, but rather included prominent political symbols.

Hassan Khadr Salama
On the bank of “Hezbollah”, Israel has intensified its pursuit of leaders of the party since the 1990s, specifically after it was decided in 1996 a unit within “Hezbollah”, its mission to work in the Palestinian interior, and was entrusted to Hassan Khadr Salama (Ali Deeb), the task of working in this file, especially communication with the Palestinian factions. Salama, who had the primary role in coordinating the supply of Palestinian factions with weapons, before the second Palestinian intifada, including with the head of the “Fatah” movement, Yasser Arafat in the eighties, and the media “Hezbollah” also published, “participated in the efforts to implement the resistance operations at home” in the late 1980s and the beginnings of the nineties, and escaped six assassination attempts before his assassination. An explosive device planted for him in the Al -Hilaliya area, east of Sidon, in southern Lebanon.

Ali Saleh
After the assassination of Salama, Ali Hussein Saleh was entrusted with the task of coordinating with the Palestinian factions and following up on support and support, which is a “security figure”, according to the media “Hezbollah”, and the journey of his prosecution by “Mossad” began. On the second of August 2003, the assassination of the leader Saleh while he was traveling in his car came from the “Al -Marja” area, with a package planted under the driver’s seat, and was estimated by official Lebanese security information wearing the package with 2.4 kilograms of very explosive materials, and was likely to have detonated away.

Ghalib Awali
Israel assassinated the leader, Ghaleb Awali, who has emerged in supporting and supplying the Palestinian factions with weapons, and described by former party secretary Hassan Nasrallah as “from the team that vowed his life and life in recent years to support his brothers in occupied Palestine.” He was assassinated on July 19, 2004, with an explosive device in Moawad’s place in the suburb.

Jihad Gabriel
On May 20, 2002, Jihad Gabriel, the son of the leader of the Popular Front – General Command, Ahmed Gabriel, was assassinated in the bombing of a car bomb in Beirut. Gabriel was responsible for the military operations of the front, especially in the Palestinian interior, and his assassination was considered a severe blow to the armed Palestinian faction.

Mahmoud Al -MajdAnd
On May 26, 2006, the leader of the Islamic Jihad movement, Mahmoud Al -Majzoub and his brother Nidal, were targeted by the bombing of a car bomb in Sidon. Al -Majzoub was responsible for the military coordination of the movement in Lebanon.

Kamal Medhat
On March 23, 2009, Kamal Medhat, security advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, was killed by an explosion targeting his convoy in the city of Sidon.

Saleh Al -Arouri
On January 2, 2024, Israel carried out one of the most daring assassinations targeting Saleh Al -Arouri, deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, in the suburb.

Khalil Al -Maqdah
On August 21, 2024, Khalil Al -Maqdah, a leader in the “Al -Aqsa Martyrs Brigades”, targeted a minute assassination by an Israeli plane in Sidon, and Israel accused him of financing and arming resistance groups in the West Bank.

Muhammad Shaheen
On February 17, 2025, Mohamed Shaheen, the military leader of the Hamas movement in Lebanon, was assassinated by Israeli air strikes on his car in Sidon. Shaheen is responsible for transferring weapons and planning military operations inside the Palestinian.