30 January 2000
☠Assassination of Aql Hashem
AttackerHezbollah➜TargetSLA (Haddad / Lahad)Israel / IDF
On 30 January 2000 the resistance killed Colonel Aql Hashem, the second man in Lahd's army and commander of its western sector, with a bomb near his house in Debel; the operation struck the militia's morale months before its collapse.