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Top Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli strike on Beirut – two security sources

By Thomson Reuters Sep 20, 2024 | 9:47 AM

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed on Friday in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, two security sources told Reuters.

One of the sources said he was killed alongside members of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan unit as they were holding a meeting.

(Reporting by Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily; Editing by Nadine Awadalla and Edmund Blair)