Israel says top Hezbollah commander among 12 people killed in strike on Beirut [Video]

LAST UPDATE | 19 hrs ago

ISRAEL ANNOUNCED IT had killed the commander of Hezbollah’s elite unit in a strike today that Lebanese officials said left 12 dead and dozens wounded in the movement’s Beirut stronghold.

Ibrahim Aqil, who was also wanted by the United States for involvement in the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut, headed the Iran-backed militant group’s elite Radwan Force.

AFP journalists at the scene said the blast left a massive crater and gutted the lower floors of a high-rise building in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.

Aqil’s killing was the second of a senior Hezbollah commander since the start of the war in Gaza, following another Israeli strike in Beirut that in July killed Fuad Shukr, a top operations chief for the movement.

It also followed two waves of explosions, on Tuesday and Wednesday, of communication devices used by Hezbollah members, which Hezbollah blamed on Israel.

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