Hassan Hawlo al-Laqqis (Arabic: حسان اللقيس;1970 – 4 December 2013) was Hezbollah's chief logistics officer and military commander in Lebanon.
Laqqis was assassinated when two gunmen shot him four times in the head and neck inside his car from close range around midnight of 3–4 December 2013.
[2] He was very close to the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah and also, reportedly lost a son during the 2006 Lebanon War.
[3] Matthew Levitt, author of the recent book Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God and a senior fellow and director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Stein Program on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence stated that there is "no question, he is very important" and that he was Hezbollah's chief military Arms Procurement and Strategic Weapons officer.
[5] A Lebanese Sunni militant group, "Ahrar al-Sunna Baalbek Brigade" (Arabic: لواء أحرار السنة بعلبك ), believed to be a Lebanon-based Al-Qaeda-linked group from the Abdullah Azzam Brigades,[6] claimed responsibility for the attack in a message on Twitter.