The IDF announced that Ibrahim Aqil, the #2 man on Hezbollah’s Jihad council and head of the elite Radwan force was killed in a strike yesterday. Aqil was one of the planners behind the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut.
In the 1980s, Aqil, also known as Tahsin, directed the taking of American and German hostages in Lebanon and held them there.
On July 21, 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated Aqil pursuant to Executive Order 13582 for acting for or on behalf of Hizballah. Subsequently, on September 10, 2019, the U.S. Department of State designated Aqil as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order 13224, as amended. There was a $7 million reward for Aqil.
It is being reported the Israelis targeted a meeting of senior Hezbollah leadership after taking out the majority of the terrorist org’s communications network.
The strike on the Hezbollah meeting wasn’t the only one yesterday. The IDF hit more than 100 targets across southern Lebanon yesterday. The targets included ammo storage, rocket launch facilities and other Hezbollah targets.