Ibrahim Qubaisi

Ibrahim Mohammad Qubaisi (10 October 1962 – 24 September 2024), known by the nom de guerre Abu Musa, was a senior Lebanese militant and the head of Hezbollah's Missile and Rocket Force. He was killed in an airstrike by the Israeli Air Force during the 2024 Lebanon war.

Hezbollah career Qubaisi joined Hezbollah in 1982 and held numerous senior military positions over a career spanning four decades. He served as a senior official in the operations array in Southern Lebanon and commanded the Badr Unit, which is responsible for the group's operations in the sector north of the Litani River.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, Qubaisi was a central planner of the 2000 Har Dov abduction, in which three Israeli soldiers were kidnapped and killed.

As the head of Hezbollah's Missile and Rocket Force, he oversaw units responsible for both statistical and precision-guided missiles. During the hostilities following October 2023, he was responsible for the rocket launches directed at Israel.

The IDF later confirmed that several other officials were killed in the same attack, including Qubaisi's deputy, Abbas Ibrahim Sharaf al-Din, and Hussein Hani, an associate of Fuad Shukr.