Hezbollah has confirmed that a senior commander, Ibrahim Aqil, was killed on Friday.
The statement by the Iran-backed militant group issued early Saturday local time did not elaborate on the circumstances of his death.
Some context: Israel claimed Aqil was among the top operatives killed Friday in an airstrike on a residential building in a southern suburb of Beirut. At least 14 people died and 66 were wounded in the strike, Lebanon’s health ministry had said.
The US has accused Aqil of involvement in the 1983 embassy strike, which killed 63 people, as well as the Hezbollah bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks, which killed 241 US personnel later that year. Read more here about Aqil.
