The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that they have neutralized Hezbollah’s top commander, Ibrahim Akil, as well as other commanders of the al-Radwan force, an elite unit of the terrorist group, in an airstrike in Beirut.

מצורפת הודעת דובר צה”ל בנושא חיסולו של איברהים עקיל, ראש מערךהמבצעים של ארגון הטרור חיזבאללה:

IDF spokesman Daniel Haggari said that Hezbollah’s top commander Ibrahim Aqil and the top leadership of the terrorist organization’s operational cell and Radwan elite force were gathered somewhere underground when they were targeted and neutralized in an Israeli airstrike.

They gathered underground, under a residential building, in the heart of Dahiyeh, while using civilians as human shields. They met to coordinate terrorist activities against Israeli civilians, Hagari told a news conference shortly after the operation in the heart of Lebanon.

Hagari reported that at least 10 Hezbollah commanders were neutralized in the Beirut airstrike, along with Aqil.

Ibrahim Aqil, also known as Tahsin, was wanted by the United States for his role in the April 1983 attacks on the U.S. embassy in Beirut that killed 63 people, and his role in attacks on U.S. Marines in October 1983 that killed 241 soldiers

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