IDF reports that senior Hezbollah official Nabil Qaouk was killed in an airstrike in Beirut last night.

The IDF has announced that senior Hezbollah official Nabil Qaouk was killed in an airstrike last night in Beirut, the Lebanese capital.

According to the IDF, Qaouk was the commander of Hezbollah’s "preventive security unit" and a senior member of the group’s central council. He was known to be close to Hezbollah’s leadership and was reportedly directly involved in planning terror attacks against Israel and its citizens, including recent incidents.

Qaouk joined Hezbollah in the 1980s, serving as deputy head and later head of the southern Lebanon area in the executive council, as well as deputy head of the executive council.

Fighter jets targeted and killed Qaouk in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, a known Hezbollah stronghold, last night.