‘Hizbullah commander killed by own men’

OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: Israel’s military chief said on Tuesday that Hizbullah’s military commander in Syria, reported dead last year, was killed by members of his own Lebanese group.

Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, speaking to a security conference, said intelligence had led Israel to the conclusion and matched previous reports.

Hizbullah itself has said Mustafa Badreddine, who was on a US terror sanctions blacklist and wanted by Israel, was killed in an explosion in May 2016 near Damascus international airport.

A probe had concluded that radicals known as "takfiris" had killed Badreddine, according to Hizbullah.

Eisenkot said Israel "believes that he was killed by his own officers".  "Those findings show to what degree relations between Hizbullah and its patron Iran are tense and complex," he said.