Hezbollah on the Brink? Battalion Commander Surrenders to IDF, Gives up Valuable Intel on Military Sites
Soldiers continue to find massive underground weapon stockpiles meters from the border
The IDF announced Tuesday that Israeli soldiers captured a battalion-level commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in a raid two weeks ago, in the first incident of its kind since the start of the war in Lebanon or Gaza.
The officer named Hassan Akil Jawad was the commander of the Ayta al-Sha’ab district and is the first commander of his rank to be captured alive by Israeli forces.
The fact that Jawad and several of his soldiers surrendered to IDF troops makes the incident even more significant and gives credence to recent media reports of the cratering morale among Hezbollah’s troops that may also have led to the recent breakthrough in the ceasefire talks.
Jawad was captured during a raid of Golani Brigade troops, who had received intelligence leading them to a shaft inside a military headquarters, where they found the commander and several soldiers who surrendered to them.
They were arrested and interrogated by field investigators of Unit 504 and then taken to the unit’s detention facility for further interrogation in Israel.
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