by Jerusalem Post Staff
Izadi was one of the few who knew in advance about Hamas's attacks in southern Israel on that day.
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Palestine Corps Commander Saeed Izadi of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was announced dead by the IDF and Defense Minister Israel Katz on Saturday.
Izadi was killed in a strike by IAF fighter jets in Qom, a city south of the Iranian capital, Tehran. He reportedly assisted in the Palestinian terrorist organizations Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad financially, and specifically in arming them for their massacres and terrorist attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, the IDF said. The military added that he was also one of the few who knew about Hamas's plans for that day in advance.
Iranian weapons smuggling and training Palestinian terror groups were done under Izadi's watch, in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Iranian funding for Hamas also increased under his watch.
Izadi was charged with organizing cooperation and coordination between Palestinian terrorist organizations, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist organization, and Bashar Al-Assad's regime in Syria while the former Syrian president was in power, seeking to build a "resistance axis" inspired by the plans of killed IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani, according to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC). He also coordinated cooperation between senior commanders of the IRGC and the Islamic Republic with key Hamas officials.
He was well-regarded by the Islamic Republic as an "expert" on the Palestinian issue.
Networking the numerous Middle Eastern terrorist organizations
Recovered Hamas documents also revealed issues that arose for Izadi to connect the numerous terror organizations together. For example, power struggles had arisen in the Gaza-based terror group between those who wanted closer ties to Iran and those who opposed the Islamic Republic's influence in the region.Izadi was also responsible for directing Hamas forces who operated in Lebanon, the IDF added.
An assessment conducted by the ITIC revealed that Izadi had further plans to focus on terror attacks from within Israel while operating from Iran. This included assassination attempts on senior Israeli officials "in revenge for the damage to 'resistance axis' organizations and the Israeli strike on Iran in October 2024," the organization said.
A statement by the IDF revealed that Izadi had also planned on executing a multi-front attack against the Jewish state, which would have included missile attacks by the Islamic Republic in conjunction with its proxies, while the second stage would have been an invasion of the country by thousands of terrorists from Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank.
Jerusalem Post Staff
Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-858462
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