Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday that the military had killed a veteran commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ overseas arm, in a strike in an apartment in Iran’s Qom. The veteran commander, Saeed Izadi, led the Palestine Corps of the Quds Force, Katz said in a statement. There was no confirmation from the IRGC. The Quds Force built up a network of Arab allies known as the Axis of Resistance, establishing Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982 and supporting the Palestinian militant Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday that the military had killed a veteran commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ overseas arm, in a strike in an…

Saeed Izadi had been in charge of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps's ties with Palestinian armed groups.

If confirmed, the assassinations of Saeed Izadi and Behnam Shahryari are a major blow to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).