Who is Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah commander targeted by Israel?
Al Jazeera
Israel targets top Hezbollah commander in air raid on Beirut suburb that kills 12 people and wounds 66.
Israel has hit a residential area in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut in an attempted assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil.
The Israeli military says it “eliminated” Aqil on Friday, but Hezbollah has yet to confirm that he has been killed.
The attack killed 12 people and wounded 66 others, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said, in a preliminary toll.
Aqil, a senior leader in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force with a $7m reward on his head from the US Department of State, was reportedly in a joint meeting between Hezbollah and an unnamed Palestinian group when the Israeli attack levelled at least two buildings.
Witness footage showed piles of grey rubble where one building once stood and thick dust spilling into the street and covering parked cars, as Lebanese Civil Defence forces dug in search of survivors.
