Israel says it has killed the top commander of the Top Iran who supervises proxy milities

Israel has killed a senior Iranian commander of the armed forces who supervise and supports Proxy Milities around the middle -East, including the Palestinian militant group of Hamas in Gaza, said an Israeli military statement on Saturday.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense identified the commander as Mohammed said Izadi. He was a long -term target of Israeli intelligence that supervised the ties of Iran with groups such as Hamas, which led on October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that ignited the war in Gaza, according to the army.

Mr. Izadi was one of the few people Who knew in advance about Hamas’s plan To launch the surprise attack, the New York Times reported last year.

Israeli officials said that Mr. Izadi led the Palestinian affairs branch in the Quds Force, the arm of Iran’s powerful Islamic revolutionary guards corps responsible for foreign operations. Israel said it had hit an apartment where Mr. Izadi stayed in Central Iran between Friday and Saturday at night.

There was no immediate remark from Iran.

Iran has been supported for a long time A network of Proxy Militions In an attempt in an attempt to extend his power and influence in the region and his enemy, Israel, threaten. They include Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis, who control parts of Yemen.

In 2019, the United States imposed On Mr. Izadi, who said he had provided millions of dollars to Hamas. Great -Britain did the same four years later to prevent what it called “Unprecedented threats from the Iranian regime.”

The Times reported that Khalil Al-Hayya, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, said in a closed-door meeting of the leadership of the group in August 2023 that he had spoken with Mr. Izadi last month to outline the plan to launch a huge attack on Israel, according to internal minutes of the group of leadership.

Mr Al-Hayya said he had told Mr. Izadi that Hamas would need help with striking sensitive locations during “the first hour” of the attack. According to the documents, Mr. Izadi said that Hezbollah and Iran in principle welcomed the plan, but that they needed time “to prepare the environment”.

After the war in Gaza started, Mr. Izadi remained in direct contact with Hamas’s sky and tried to help them by transferring equipment and funds to the territory, according to two Israeli defense officials. They spoke about the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Last year, when Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon Intensified, Mr. Izadi left his old basis in that country for Iran.

Eventually he finished in a safe house of the Revolutionary Guards Military Force in the city of Qum, the two officials – the same apartment where he was killed at night.