IDF Confirms Elimination of Hezbollah’s Golan File Commander in Southern Lebanon

The IDF said it carried out an airstrike in southern Lebanon on Friday and killed Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah operative and long-time commander in the group. According to the military, Daqduq held a series of key posts in Hezbollah and was a major source of operational expertise with extensive combat experience.

The IDF said that over recent years he worked on carrying out terror plots and on fighting Israeli forces and the State of Israel. His roles included head of the security team for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, a commander in the operations department of the Nasser unit, and head of Hezbollah’s infantry arm.

He also served as commander of Hezbollah’s “Golan File,” an operational branch responsible for building the group’s presence in Syria and military infrastructure near Israel’s border. The IDF said the unit was exposed in 2019. Daqduq was described as having led much of the combat planning against IDF forces in recent years.

The military also noted that in 2007 he was imprisoned by the Americans after leading the abduction and killing of five U.S. soldiers. The IDF called the strike a significant killing of another senior Hezbollah commander and said it closed a circle against one of the main planners of terror attacks against Israeli civilians, IDF troops, and U.S. soldiers.