A Syrian businessman with links to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was eliminated Monday afternoon in a targeted air strike along the Lebanese-Syrian border, according to multiple reports.
#Lebanonnews: On Monday, a car was targeted near the Lebanese-Syrian border.
No additional details are available yet about the recent incident.#Lebanon #Syriahttps://t.co/mozw7LtYL6
— LBCI Lebanon English (@LBCI_News_EN) July 15, 2024
The alleged target of the attack was Mohammed Bara’a Katerji, a senior figure who was close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to Lebanon’s LBCI, Israel’s Channel 12 News and the Reuters news agency.
Katerji had known ties to Assad, along with links to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and was under sanctions by both the US and the UK.
The drone strike targeted a BMW X5 in which two people were riding near the Syrian town of as-Saboura, near the border with Lebanon. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a vehicle with a Lebanese license plate exploded near Al-Masna’a Crossing at the borders between Syria and Lebanon.
This is the second targeted air strike in the area in less than two weeks.
On July 9, Israel assassinated senior arms importer Yasser Nimer Qarnabash “Amin,” (also known as Abu Fadal or Hajj Amin) a former bodyguard to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
Qarnabash was in charge of transferring weapons from Iran via Syria to the terrorist organization in Lebanon, and was the commander of Hezbollah’s operations in Marjaayoun in 2000.
The terrorist was eliminated in an air strike that targeted his car on the Damascus-Beirut highway.
