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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli strike that killed 6 near al-Masnaa targeted senior PFLP official
2025-08-09
[NAHARNET] An Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on eastern Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
killed six people, including a senior member of a Paleostinian group and his bodyguard as they were on their way to Syria, news reports and his group said Friday.

The Thursday afternoon airstrike near the Lebanese border crossing of Masnaa killed Mohammed Wishah, a member of the central committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, the group said in a statement.

An Israeli army statement described Wishah as ''the head of the PFLP in Syria,'' saying he was responsible for ''establishing cooperation with other Paleostinian — organizations, working to strengthen cooperation with the Shiite axis, and most recently, carrying out military activities against Israeli targets.''

Senior PFLP official Marwan Abdel-Al mourned in a post on social media the death of Wishah and his bodyguard, Mufid Hussein. "We have lost two of the most loyal comrades who gave their precious souls to freedom," Abdel-Al wrote.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the airstrike on east Lebanon killed six people and maimed 10, without identifying the victims.

Since the Israel-Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
war began in October 2023, Israel has targeted Paleostinian officials in Lebanon, including PFLP members. Three PFLP members were killed in an airstrike on a Beirut apartment last September.

A PFLP official said Wishah had been in Lebanon to meet with other officials with the group and was on his way back to Syria when the airstrike happened. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to not being authorized to speak to the media.

The PFLP statement said Wishah was born in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip in 1954 and spent five years in Israeli jails shortly after he joined the Paleostinian group in 1973.

For many years, the leftist and secular PFLP has been the second-largest member of the Paleostinian Liberation Organization after Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
' Fatah group.

The Times of Israel adds:
IDF says Friday drone attack in south kills Hezbollah intelligence commander

Mohammed Wishah, a Syrian senior terror operative in the PFLP, served as the head of the group’s Military-Security Department in Syria. He assumed the role after his predecessor, Shantal al-Al, was killed in a strike in Beirut in September 2024.

Three PFLP members were killed in an airstrike on a Beirut apartment last September.

Separately, an IDF drone struck a vehicle near the towns of Ansariyeh and Aadloun, located between Tyre and Sidon in southern Lebanon, killing a senior Hezbollah intelligence commander, the military said.

Lebanese media said that the strike killed a citizen journalist, Mohammed Shehadeh, though Hezbollah claimed him as one of its members.

The IDF said that Shehadeh was chief of intelligence in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, and his activities were a violation of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
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