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Last Updated: September 20, 2024, 20:47 IST
Lebanon
Ibrahim Aqil is the chief of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, the group's top military unit. (Image via US Department of State website)
The strike also injured more than a dozen people, according to Lebanese health officials
The Israeli military carried out a “targeted attack” on Friday, killing one of Hezbollah’s top military commanders, Ibrahim Aqil, along with two others in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
The strike also injured more than a dozen people, according to Lebanese health officials. This was the first Israeli attack on Beirut in months, after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with rockets.
Who is Ibrahim Aqil?
Ibrahim Aqil is the chief of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, the group’s top military unit.
According to the US Department of State, he also served on Hezbollah’s highest military body, the Jihad Council.
In the 1980s, Aqil was a key member of Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization, which claimed responsibility for significant attacks, including the bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, resulting in 63 deaths, and the bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in October 1983, which killed 241 U.S. personnel. He also directed the taking of American and German hostages in Lebanon during that period.
The US had announced a reward of up to $7 million in April 2023 for information about Aqil.
