Hezbollah operative killed by Israel was also a Lebanese army soldier - and Lebanon's denials are absurd ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Hezbollah operative killed by Israel was also a Lebanese army soldier - and Lebanon's denials are absurd

L'Orient Today reports:

The Lebanese Army and Defense Minister Michel Menassa staunchly defended the troops on Tuesday and denied any connection to Hezbollah, after the Israeli army accused one of the three victims of the Israeli strike on a car in the Saida region of being both a soldier and a member of the party.

The Israeli allegations, which claimed that Ali Abdallah, one of the three men killed on Monday, was both a soldier and a Hezbollah fighter, are “false,” a source within the army told L’Orient-Le Jour in the morning.

So why was he in the same car as Hezbollah terrorists?

“It is possible that the men accompanying the soldier were relatives or friends from his village,” clarified an army source.

Ah. Yes. That's it. Certainly. The soldier just hung out with terrorists, but it was all innocent.

From Alma Research:

Yesterday (22 December), in an airstrike on a vehicle near the village of Qnaitra, three Hezbollah operatives were eliminated. One of them, Ali Abdullah, was a Hezbollah operative who served concurrently in the Intelligence unit of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF).

Abdullah had previously also served in the LAF’s anti-tank battalion—a unit responsible for training army battalions and special brigades in the use of various weapons systems. Its personnel undergo combat training courses that include raids, live fire, and the establishment of checkpoints. In his most recent role, as noted, he served in the LAF Intelligence unit. He was therefore an individual with significant military training and access to sensitive information and infrastructure.

The two other eliminated operatives were Mustafa Mohammad Balout, an operative in Hezbollah’s air defense array in the Sidon sector, and Hassan Hamdan. The publication of photos and a video showing the two together with Ali Abdullah singing a song in praise of Nasrallah points to a close personal relationship among the three.

This case is not exceptional. Hezbollah employs numerous officers and soldiers within the LAF — most of them from the Shiite community—who assist the organization directly or indirectly. Their affiliation with Hezbollah stems from a combination of ideological, sectarian, familial, and sometimes social motivations (such as originating from the same village). These soldiers serve as enablers for Hezbollah and its operations in southern Lebanon against Israel.

Hezbollah operates systematically to recruit officers from within the LAF. It can then exploit them to gain access to military infrastructure and assets, coordinate activities, and even operate under the cover of LAF patrols.

This is the sort of information that Western media simply never reports. The Lebanese Army needs to clean up not only Hezbollah, but its own ranks. And that is not realistically going to happen any time soon while they deny that some of their people are Hezbollah.