An IDF airstrike killed Ibrahim Aqil while he met with other senior commanders in an underground bunker outside Beirut.
In yet another devastating strike on Hezbollah, an Israeli airstrike on Sept. 20 eliminated its operations commander and a dozen other top leaders as they met in a bunker beneath a residential building outside Beirut, Lebanon.
Hezbollah had responded overnight, as it promised it would, to this week’s deadly exploding pager and radio attacks, launching nearly 150 missiles at Israel.
But Israel’s latest retaliation hit the terror group even harder. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it killed Ibrahim Aqil.
He was Hezbollah’s operations commander, head of its elite Radwan Forces, in line to become second-in-command to leader Hassan Nasrallah, and long wanted by the United States for his directing the 1983 U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks bombings in Beirut.
The IDF said Aqil was planning Hezbollah’s version of Hamas’s deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, in which northern Israeli communities would be infiltrated and their residents murdered.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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