Israeli strike in Syria reported to have killed Hezbollah commander
The Israeli military reportedly killed a senior Hezbollah commander who is said to have helped plan an attack on US soldiers in Iraq in 2007, according to US media.
Citing an anonymous senior US defence official, NBC news reports that Ali Mussa Daqduq – who allegedly played a key role in the Karbala raid, in which fighters disguised as an American security team entered a base, opened fire and killed five US soldiers – was killed in a recent air strike in Syria.
It was not immediately clear when or where in Syria the killing took place, nor whether it targeted Daqduq specifically, the senior defence official told NBC. Daqduq was captured by US forces but later released by the Iraqi government following the US’s withdrawal from the country.
A US soldier next to a picture of Ali Mussa Daqduq during a news conference at the heavily fortified Green Zone area in Baghdad in July 2007
Makes you wonder how close US and Israel military intelligence are working together. With Hezbollah it seems Israel is as much carrying out revenge for the USA as trying to create a buffer zone.
Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate at Manhattan museum over Israel links
Pro-Palestinian activists have disrupted a conference by the president of the Morgan Museum in Manhattan, protesting against his alleged ties to Israel and investments in Israeli institutions.
Videos posted online, which have been verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, showed activists chanting and distributing flyers that condemn “complicity in genocide” due to investments in manufacturing arms that are being used to kill Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.
Palestine activists disrupted the @MorganLibrary in Manhattan tonight to protest the museum’s board of trustees co-president Robert Steel’s complicity in genocide as sitting on the board of directors of General Dynamics, a major manufacturer of weapons fueling Israeli war crimes. pic.twitter.com/IWuFvSEkm4
— Gerard (@GerardDalbon) November 23, 2024
