Israel says academic killed in university strike was Hezbollah operative
The Israeli military said an academic who was killed in a drone strike Thursday in Beirut was a Hezbollah operative.
Prof. Mortada Srour was an expert in the field of weapons manufacturing within the organization, the military said Friday.
Srour, one of two academics killed in the strike, was employed as a chemistry lecturer at the Lebanese University campus just south of Beirut.
The military said Srour was the brother of Mohammad Srour, commander of Hezbollah’s aerial unit, who was killed in an Israeli strike in 2024.
It added that Hezbollah’s weapons manufacturing operatives operate from various locations in Lebanon to increase the group’s ability to supplying its own weapons.
Source: Associated Press
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