Mohammad Issa ( ar, محمد أحمد عيسى; January 30, 1972 – January 18, 2015) was a

Hezbollah Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's parami ...

military commander and chief of operations in Southern

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. He was killed by an Israeli drone strike in 2015 during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography

Mohammed Issa, also known as ''Abu Issa'', was from Arabsalim in the

Nabatieh District The Nabatieh District is a district in the Nabatieh Governorate of Lebanon. The capital of the district is Nabatieh. Villages * Qaaqaait Al Jisr * Ansar * Aedsheet *Ain Qana * Ain Boswar * Aldawair * Arab Saleem * Chouqin * Der Al Zahrani *Doue ...

of southern Lebanon. His father was Syrian and his mother Lebanese. He joined Hezbollah by the age of 15, and rose through the ranks and took a leadership in many battles with Israel, including the

2006 Lebanon War The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War ( ar, حرب تموز, ''Ḥarb Tammūz'') and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War ( he, מלחמת לבנון השנייה, ''Milhemet Leva ...

. He was said to be leading Hezbollah's operations in the Golan at the time of his death and was the only one officially identified by Hezbollah as a commander.

Death

An Israeli drone strike killed Mohammad Issa, one Iranian brigadier general,

Jihad Mughniyah Jihad Mughniyah ( ar, جهاد مغنية; 2 May 1991 – 18 January 2015) was a prominent member of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah and the son of Imad Mugniyah. He was killed in 2015 in the Mazraat Amal incident, an airstrike attri ...

and four Hezbollah Field Officers in

Quneitra Governorate Quneitra Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة القنيطرة / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Al-Qunayṭrah'') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in southern Syria, notable for the location of the Golan Heights. The ...

. They were driving in a convoy in Quneitra Province alongside Revolutionary Guard Council (IRGC) near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and on 18 January 2015 the convoy was destroyed by an Israeli drone.

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Biography

Death

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