Hezbollah operations commander Ibrahim Aqil is believed to be among those killed in an Israeli missile strike on Beirut.
The Israeli strike on Lebanon's capital Beirut killed a senior Hezbollah commander, according to Reuters.Operations commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed in the attack on the southern suburbs of the city, two security sources told the news agency.One source said he was killed alongside members of Hezbollah's elite Radwan unit as they were holding a meeting.
The US had been offering a reward of $7m for information about Aqil, who it said was the 'principal member' of the group that bombed the US embassy in Beirut in 1983, killing 63 people, and the US Marine barracks in the same year, killing 241 US personnel.Sky News's international correspondent John Sparks said that if confirmed, the death of Aqil showed Hezbollah was 'completely unable to protect both its members... and its senior commanders'.
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