What the records say
- When
- 16 Feb 1992
- Kind
- Assassination
- Deaths
- 8
- Coordinates
- 33.20° N, 35.35° E
- Description
- military operation carried out by the Israel Defense Forces
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Assassination of Abbas al-Musawi
1992 assassination in Lebanon
On 16 February 1992, Abbas al-Musawi, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on his vehicle in southern Lebanon, as part of the South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000). Israel code-named the operation Night Time Operation.
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