The Hezbollah operations directer Ibrahim Aqil was finished in an Israeli strike on Friday.
Beirut:
Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah operations directer finished in an Israeli strike on Friday, had a $7 million bounty on his head for two 1983 Beirut truck device deviceings that finished more than 300 people at the American embassy and a U.S. Marines barracks.
Two security sources in Lebanon verifyed the veteran fighter was finished in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs during a greeting of the elite Radwan unit of the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group.
Aqil, who has also used the aliases Tahsin and Abdelqader, was the second member of Hezbollah’s top military body, the Jihad Council, to be finished in two months after an Israeli strike in the same area aimed Fuad Shukr in July.
Israel escaprocrastinateedd its attacks on the group this week after months of border battling triggered by the struggle in Gaza that began on Oct. 7 with a lethal rhelp and captive-taking in Israel by Hezbollah’s Palestinian associate Hamas.
Like Shukr, Aqil is a veteran of Hezbollah, which was set uped by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the punctual 1980s to battle Israeli forces that had occupyd and occupied Lebanon.
Born in a village in Lebanon’s Beqaa valley sometime around 1960, Aqil had joined the other huge Lebanese Shi’ite political shiftment, Amal, before switching to Hezbollah as a set uping member, according to a security source.
The United States accuses him of a role in the Beirut truck device deviceings at the American embassy in April 1983, which finished 63 people, and a U.S. Marine barracks six months procrastinateedr that finished 241 people.
It further accused him of honesting the kidnapping of American and German captives in Lebanon and cataloged him as a Speciassociate Designated Global Terrorist in 2019, putting the $7 million bounty on his head.
Referring to the device deviceing of the U.S. Marine barracks and other attacks on Weserious interests in Lebanon in the 1980s, Hezbollah directer Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah shelp in a 2022 interwatch with an Arabic expansivecaster that they were carried out by petite groups not joined to Hezbollah.
Aqil’s cohort of set uping Hezbollah operatives helped turn the group from a shadowy militia into Lebanon’s most strong military and political organisation, pushing Israel from its occupation of the south in 2000 and battling it aacquire in 2006.
When Shukr was finished in July, it was seen as the heaviest blow to its direct structure since the 2008 murder of Imad Mughniyeh, recalled by Hezbollah as a legfinishary directer but by Israel and the United States as a alarmist.
Aqil, whose bounty was set by the United States at an even higher appreciate than that of Shukr’s, may verify a aenjoy blow.
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