The commander of Hezbollah’s headquarters in the Beirut area was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Monday, according to the Israel Defence Forces.

Israeli Air Force jets guided by the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate targeted Suhail Hussein Husseini, who the IDF said had “played a crucial role” in transferring weapons between Iran and its Lebanese terror proxy.

His duties also included distributing the weapons to Hezbollah units and overseeing the transportation and allocation of the arms.

Husseini was also responsible for managing the budgets and logistics of Hezbollah’s most sensitive projects, “including the organisation’s war plans and other special operations, such as co-ordinating terrorist attacks against the state of Israel from Lebanon and Syria,” the IDF said on Tuesday.

Additionally, he was a member of the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s senior military forum.

The IDF said the headquarters included Hezbollah’s Research and Development Unit, “which is responsible for manufacturing precision-guided missiles and managing the storage and transportation of weapons in Lebanon”.

Hezbollah launched 190 projectiles into Israeli territory on Monday, mostly targeting the north of the country, with five rockets fired at the Tel Aviv area on Monday night.

The group has attacked Israel nearly every day since October 8, firing thousands of rockets, missiles and drones at Israel, killing more than 40 people and causing widespread damage. Tens of thousands of Israeli civilians remain internally displaced owing to the ongoing violence.

Hezbollah has launched more than 12,400 projectiles at Israeli territory over the past year, according to the most recent IDF figures.

Jerusalem has escalated attacks on Hezbollah since last month adding the return of evacuated Israeli civilians to the north as an official war goal.