And kill thousands of children and women in the process – Mark
Israel announced on Friday that it killed the commander of Hezbollah’s elite unit in a strike that Lebanese officials said left 14 dead and dozens wounded in the movement’s Beirut stronghold.
Ibrahim Aqil, who was wanted by the United States for involvement in the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut, headed the Iran-backed militant group’s elite Radwan Force.
AFP journalists at the scene said the blast left a massive crater and gutted the lower floors of a high-rise building in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs.
Rescue workers were still using heavy equipment to search the rubble hours after the strike, AFPTV footage showed.
Aqil’s killing was the second of a senior Hezbollah commander since the start of the war in Gaza. Another Israeli strike in Beirut in July killed Fuad Shukr, a top operations chief for the movement.
It also followed two waves of explosions, on Tuesday and Wednesday, of communication devices used by Hezbollah members, which Hezbollah blamed on Israel
Those blasts killed dozens and left Hezbollah reeling while dramatically shifting the focus of the Israel-Hamas war northwards.
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