Hezbollah Senior Says Official Beirut Israel’s Killed Military Strike On Its

Israel’s military says its strike on Beirut killed senior Hezbollah official — People gather near a damaged building at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut (Bilal Hussein/AP)

Fri, 20 Sep, 2024 - 17:13

Sophie Wills

The Israeli military has announced that its airstrike on a neighbourhood of Beirut killed Ibrahim Akil, a senior Hezbollah military official.

There was no immediate confirmation of his death from Hezbollah.

The Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital killed at least nine people and wounded nearly 60 others, according to Lebanese health officials, and flattened two apartment buildings.

The Israeli military also claimed that its strike killed other “top operatives” of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, without elaborating.

A Hezbollah official has confirmed that Akil was supposed to be in the building in the Dahiya district that was hit.

Akil has served on Hezbollah’s highest military body, the Jihad Council, and has been sanctioned by the US for being involved in two terrorist attacks in 1983 that killed more than 300 people at the US Embassy in Beirut and the US Marine Corps barracks.