Tsahal kills the Iranian commander who helped Hamas attack on October 7

Israeli defense forces said on Saturday that she had killed an Iranian commander who for years helped to arm and finance Hamas on behalf of the regime.

Saeed Izadi, commander of the Palestine body in the Etra force, was killed early Saturday during an Israeli strike in the city of Qom.

Izadi was also “one of the orchestrators” of October 7, 2023, an attack not caused by Hamas against Israel, according to BBC News.

“The blood of thousands of Israelis is with his hands,” said FDI chief Eyal Zamir in a press release, calling him “formidable intelligence and operational realization”.

Israel says it killed the “highest -end military official” of Iran

Smoke increases following an Israeli attack on Tehran oil refinery on June 15. (Press agency in Western Asia via Reuters)

After the murder of Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’ armed wing chief in a Gaza hospital in May, a joint operation between the FDI and the Israeli security agency (ISA) discovered an underground command center under the hospital.

Israeli troops have found documents in the command center revealing that the Hamas military wing had maintained contact with Izadi in recent months, including Sinwar.

The correspondence between Sinwar and Izadi planning an operation in which Izadi would arm Hamas with $ 21 million in weapons followed by an additional $ 25 million in the command center, the IDF said.

The best adviser to the Iranian supreme chief killed in Israeli strikes, according to the state media

The FDI found the correspondence between Izadi and Hamas in an underground command center in Gaza. (IDF)

“Due to the intensive efforts of Southern Command, the Intelligence Department and the ISA, these two projects to arm the military wing of Hamas in the Gaza Strip with advanced weapons worth tens of millions of dollars have not materialized,” said the IDR.

Izadi had been sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom for its links with the Islamic Jihad Militant Faction, which also helped plan the terrorist attacks on October 7.

The FDI later said on Saturday that she also killed a second Iranian commander, Benham Shariyari, during a strike on his vehicle in Tehran.

The forces of TSAhal are seen operating in Rafah, a city of the Gaza Strip. (TDI spokesperson’s office)

Shariyari had been “responsible for all the Iranian regime’s transfers of weapons to its proxies through the Middle East”, including missiles and rockets launched by Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthis in Israel, the FDI said.

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“Since the outbreak of war, the FDI has been working to dismantle the military capacities of the Hamas terrorist organization. The FDI will continue to act against any attempt by the Iranian regime to arm and finance terrorist organizations that threaten the state of Israel and its civilians,” the FDI said. “The elimination of Izadi constitutes an important blow for the Iranian regime funding and terrorism financing network.”