Nasrallah's son-in-law killed in Israeli raid in Damascus

The son-in-law of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah - who was killed last week in a massive Israeli strike in south Beirut - was killed in an Israeli raid in Damascus Wednesday, an NGO said.

"Hassan Jaafar Qassir, the son-in-law of Hassan Nasrallah, was among two Lebanese victims of the Israeli raid which targeted an apartment in a residential building in the Mazze district of Damascus," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a claim a source close to Hezbollah confirmed to AFP.

He is the brother of Ahmad Qassir who carried out a suicide attack in the southern port city of Tyre in 1982 that killed dozens of Israeli soldiers and of Mohammad Qassir who was killed in a strike on Jnah Tuesday.

Mohammad Qassir was in charge of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400 that ships weapons from Iran to Lebanon and he supervised Hezbollah’s development of precision-guided missiles, the Israeli military said, adding that he also sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Hezbollah in recent years.