The IDF confirmed on Wednesday that earlier in the day, based on IDF intelligence, the IAF struck and eliminated the terrorist Faris Qasim, a significant terrorist in the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization's Operations Division, in the area of the Syrian-Lebanese border.
According to the IDF, Qasim was responsible for the development of the Islamic Jihad's operational plans in Syria and Lebanon. He had a central role in the recruitment of Palestinian terrorists into the Hezbollah terrorist organization responsible for carrying out terrorist attacks from Lebanon against the State of Israel.
"In recent years, the Hezbollah terrorist organization, with Iranian direction and funding, has been systematically recruiting Palestinian operatives to advance and direct terrorist activity against the State of Israel from Lebanese territory," the IDF noted.
Additional Islamic Jihad terrorists who were on their way from Syria to carry out terrorist activities for the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanese territory were eliminated in the strike.... Read More: Arutz-7