Israel on Friday killed a Hezbollah leader who was behind a series of bombing attacks that killed more than 300 Americans in the 1980s.
Ibrahim Aqil – most recently a member of Hezbollah’s highest military body, the Jihad Council “was eliminated in a targeted intelligence-based strike in Beirut earlier today,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Friday.
He was killed along with other commanders planning a fresh incursion on Israel to “kidnap and murder innocent civilians in a similar manner to the October 7 Massacre,” the IDF said.
“The IDF will continue to remove the threat of Hezbollah’s capabilities and will continue to operate in all arenas to protect Israeli civilians,” the military said in its announcement.
Aquil, who was also known as “Tahsin,” was a “principal leader” in the terrorist groups’ cell responsible for the 1983 Lebanon bombings at a US embassy in Beirut that killed 63 people and a Marine Corps barracks, which killed 241 US personnel.
The US announced a $7 million reward in April last year for any info as to his whereabouts.