Kassem Salah el-Husseini, killed in an Israeli strike on July 3, 2025, on the Khaldeh highway at the southern entrance of Beirut. Photo circulating on social media.
Twenty-four hours after the Israeli drone strike on Thursday afternoon targeting a vehicle traveling along the Khaldeh highway, at the southern entrance to the capital, Beirut, conflicting information continued to circulate about the identity of the man killed. It took several hours before a name began circulating: Kassem al-Husseini. A widely shared photo on social media shows him holding a machine gun and wearing military clothes that do not resemble those typically worn by Hezbollah fighters, who are frequently the targets of Israeli strikes following the conclusion of the Nov. 27 cease-fire agreement. Missed this report? Strikes, assassinations and controversies: A look back at six months of cease-fire in Lebanon An Israeli army statement issued the day after the attack stated that the militant was Kassem Salah...
Twenty-four hours after the Israeli drone strike on Thursday afternoon targeting a vehicle traveling along the Khaldeh highway, at the southern entrance to the capital, Beirut, conflicting information continued to circulate about the identity of the man killed. It took several hours before a name began circulating: Kassem al-Husseini. A widely shared photo on social media shows him holding a machine gun and wearing military clothes that do not resemble those typically worn by Hezbollah fighters, who are frequently the targets of Israeli strikes following the conclusion of the Nov. 27 cease-fire agreement. Missed this report? Strikes, assassinations and controversies: A look back at six months of cease-fire in Lebanon An Israeli army statement issued the day after the attack stated that the militant was Kassem Salah...