The son-in-law of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated by Israel last week in a strike on the party’s stronghold in the suburbs of Beirut, was killed in an Israeli raid which left three people dead on Wednesday in Damascus, an NGO said.
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“Hassan Jaafar al-Qasir, son-in-law of Hassan Nasrallah, is one of the two Lebanese victims of the Israeli raid which targeted an apartment in a residential building in the Mazzé district of Damascus,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ‘man.
A source close to Hezbollah confirmed this information to AFP and specified that Hassan Jaafar al-Qasir was the brother of Jaafar al-Qasir, responsible for the transfer of weapons from Iran to Lebanon, which Israel announced it had killed Tuesday in a strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
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