Media: Israel attempted to eliminate the head of Hezbollah’s counterintelligence and Nasrallah’s son-in-law

Al-Arabiya TV channel reported that the target of the IDF airstrike on a high-rise building in north-west Beirut was Nasrallah’s son-in-law (sister’s husband), head of Hezbollah counterintelligence Uafik Safa. The Israeli media also call him “Hezbollah’s Minister of Defense.”

Lebanese security sources told Reuters the airstrike killed at least two people and wounded at least nine.

According to information from Lebanese sources, three rockets were launched at an eight-story building in one of the central districts of the capital.

According to Arab sources, in 2000, after the bodies of three Israeli soldiers were stolen, Safa founded and then served on a negotiating committee. In 2004, the bodies of the victims were returned to Israel as part of an exchange deal. He was also involved in negotiations to return to Israel the bodies of two soldiers kidnapped in July 2006, an incident that sparked the Second Lebanon War.