16 February 1992

☠Assassination of Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi

South Lebanon#Israel–Lebanon #Resistance against Israel #Assassinations

AttackerIsrael / IDF➜TargetHezbollah

On 16 February 1992 Israeli helicopters assassinated Hezbollah's secretary-general Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi with his wife and child on the Jibsheet–Tefahta road; the council elected Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to succeed him two days later.

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