Israel Reports Killing of Hamas Rocket Experts in Syria. He directed the shelling of Israel from the neighboring country, it is said. Just hours earlier, a key commander of the Shiite militia Hezbollah, Wissam al-Tauil, had been killed in Lebanon in a suspected Israeli drone strike. There was no confirmation of this from the Israeli side, nor was there any confirmation of the deadly attack on Hamas' second-highest-ranking leader abroad, Saleh al-Arouri.