The United States announced yesterday (Monday) that it is offering a $ 7 million grant for information that will lead to the arrest of Talal Hamia, head of Hezbollah's international military department entrusted with its terrorist activities around the world.
"He is in charge of planning, coordinating and executing terrorist attacks outside Lebanon," the US Secretariat explained.
Hamia is not the only senior Hezbollah figure for whom the Washington Prize is being offered.
Three weeks ago, the United States announced that it would provide five million dollars for information that would lead to Khalil Yosef Harb, Hezbollah's close adviser to Hassan Nasrallah.
Hezbollah Secretary General Nasrallah coughs and chokes during a speech
Yosef Harev also served as the "military attache" of the terrorist organization in Lebanon against the pro-Iranian militias and Palestinian terrorist organizations.
Yosef Harev commanded and advised the activities of Palestinian terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East.
Since 2012, he has been involved in large-scale money transfers to Houthi rebels in Yemen, and since August 2013, he has been labeled by the US Treasury Department as an "international terrorist."
The US offer, for a total of five million dollars for information that will lead to a senior Hezbollah figure, is unprecedented.
The United States is offering a similar amount of information that will lead to Haytham Ali Tabatbay, a senior official in Hezbollah's military wing in general - and in the special forces of the Shiite terrorist organization in Syria, and in Yemen in particular.
The 1983 terrorist attack in Beirut claimed the lives of 241 American fighters, E.P.
Another prominent figure in Hezbollah in the United States who is being offered $ 5 million in compensation is Poir Shuker, who played a key role in planning and carrying out the attack on the naval base in Beirut on October 23, 1983, in which 241 American soldiers were killed. On the importance attached in the United States to the arrest of Hamia.
Meanwhile, Washington is offering $ 10 million for information that will disrupt Hezbollah's money transfer mechanism.
This is because of the knowledge that Iran funds Hezbollah's activities in the amount of about $ 1 billion a year, through direct transfers, international businesses, investments, donor networks, corruption and money laundering.
From Hezbollah, the money is invested in their international terrorist activities, for example in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.