One of Hezbollah’s senior field operatives was killed while "fulfilling his duty of jihad" in Syria, according to an Israeli intelligence think-tank.
A Hezbollah terrorist identified as Hajj Fawzi Ayoub was killed while fighting on behalf of embattled Syrian President Bashar al Assad, according to the Israel-based Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC).
Ayoud, who is reported to have "a long history of terrorist activity abroad" is confirmed to be dead, but conflicting reports have emerged as to the specific details.
The ITIC reports:
There are two versions of where he died. Lebanese and Syrian media reported that he was commanding a Hezbollah force in Aleppo, and was killed there. However, "Lebanese security sources" and a Syrian source reported that he was killed in the Syrian town of Nawa in the southern Golan Heights, in the Dara'a province (Alzaman.com, albawaba.com, May 27, 2014). It was also reported that last year he was wounded in the battles at Al-Qusayr.
Ayoub was a seasoned Hezbollah veteran, according to the report:
Hajj Fawzi Ayoub was a Lebanese national with Canadian citizenship. He had previously belonged to Hezbollah's terrorist attack network abroad; he was arrested in Romania for an attempted terrorist attack, and went to live in Canada and the United States. He returned to Lebanon and from there Hezbollah sent him on a mission to gather intelligence and carry out an attack in Israel. He was detained by the Palestinian police in Hebron and later by the Israeli security forces. In 2000 he was imprisoned in Israel and released in the Tannenbaum exchange deal.[1] In 2009 the FBI put him on its most wanted terrorist list.