Key Takeaways
- Hezbollah confirms death of top commander in Beirut strike
- At least 14 people, including Hezbollah’s top commander, Ibrahim Aqil, were killed in the Israeli airstrike.
- The Israeli airstrike occurred in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, and resulted in 60 injuries.
Beirut: Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah special operations commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern Beirut suburb, the movement has confirmed.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported on Friday that Aqil and several other commanders had been killed in a strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Aqil is believed to have been one of the organizers of the bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut in 1983 and was wanted by the United States.
On Friday, Israeli airstrikes on a residential building in the southern suburb of Beirut (Dahieh) resulted in the deaths of at least 14 people, including top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil, and 60 injuries.
