In a new wave of eliminations from important military commanders of Iran, Israel announced this Saturday (21) that killed Mohammad Saeed IzadiHead of the Palestinian Body of the Force QDS of Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
According to information from the Jerusalem Post newspaper, Israel’s forces reported that Izadi was killed in an attack of Israeli Air Force fighters, who, after an information collection operation, aimed at his apartment in the city of Qom, south of Tehran.
In a statement, Israeli Defense Forces (FDI) reported that Izadi was “one of the architects” of the attack that Hamas held in Israel on October 7, 2023, when the terrorist group and allied factions killed about 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 others.
According to The Times of Israel, the FDI said the Iranian commander was “one of the few who knew” the attacks “before their execution.”
“Izadi facilitated the increase in Iran’s financial support to Hamas for terrorist activities against the State of Israel and maintained direct contact with Palestinian terrorist organizations,” both in Gaza and the West Bank, reported the FDI, which stressed that such support occurred before October 7th and during the war began in the Hamas attacks.
“He assumed as a mission to rebuild the Hamas Military Wing and ensure that the group remained as the dominant power in Gaza,” the FDI described.
According to the Israeli forces, Izadi was one of the main articulators of a “Iranian regime plan to destroy Israel” consisting of “a multifrontal attack on two phases.”
“First, a bombing of missiles and rockets through the regime and its allies throughout the Middle East. Second, a mass invasion of Israeli territory for tens of thousands of terrorists from Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Judea and Samaria,” said FDI – Judea and Samaria is the biblical term used by Israel to refer to the Someline.
In April, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz had revealed that a document obtained by the country’s intelligence showed that the then Hamas leaders, Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Deif (both killed by Israel in 2024), sent a letter to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard commander, Esmail Qaani, in June 2021, in search of Support for attacks on Israel’s territory to “destroy” the country in two years.
The letter called for the transfer of $ 500 million to this plan, which would result in the October 7 attacks.
“[Izadi] He accepted the request and replied that Iran, despite its difficult economic situation and the difficult situation of the Iranian population, will continue to channel money for Hamas because the fight against Israel and the US is the main priority of the Iranian regime, ”Katz said.
Izadi had been the target of Sanctions from the United States and the United Kingdom for his calls with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian terrorist group, who participated in October 7 attacks.
The head of the FDI state of the FDI, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, said that Izadi’s death is “one of the key moments in the war on various fronts and makes the whole Middle East safer.”
