Hezbollah commanders Ibrahim Aqil (left) and Ahmed Wahbi (right). Click to see full-size image.
Hezbollah top military commander was killed along with other senior members of the group on September 20 when an Israeli strike hit the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
In a statement claiming responsibility for the strike, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that the main target, Ibrahim Aqil, was the head of Hezbollah’s military operations, the acting commander of the group’s elite Radwan Force and was overseeing a planned operation to invade the Galilee.
Aqil, known as Hajj Abdul Qader, was also the most senior military member of the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s top military body, after Israel’s assassination of Fuad Shukr in a strike in Beirut in July.
The commander was also wanted by the United States for his alleged role in the 1983 bombings of the American Embassy in Lebanon and the Marines barracks in Beirut.
Hezbollah mourned Aqil in an official statement, saying “one of its great leaders” was killed “on the road to Jerusalem.” The statement also said the “great jihadist leader” had “joined the procession of his brothers, the great martyr leaders, after a blessed life full of jihad, work, wounds, sacrifices, dangers, challenges, achievements, and victories.”
Before and after the Israeli strike targeting Aqil, Hezbollah fired some 200 rockets at the northern Galilee and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. No casualties were reported by Hebrew media however.
According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, 14 people were killed and 66 were wounded, including civilians. The ministry said that the Israeli strike leveled the apartment building in the Dahiyeh suburb, where the IDF said that Aqil and the other Hezbollah leaders had been meeting below ground.
The top brass of Hezbollah’s operations array and the leadership of the Radwan Force were killed in the strike alongside Aqil, according to the IDF.
“They gathered underground, under a residential building, in the heart of the Dahiyeh, while using civilians as a human shield. They met to coordinate terror activities against Israeli civilians,” IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a press conference.
Hagari added that at least ten members of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force and operations array were killed in the strike, which Lebanese media reported was carried out by an F-35 fighter jet of the Israeli Air Force using two munitions.
“Aqil and the Radwan Force commanders who we attacked are the commanders who drew up and led the Hezbollah terror group’s plan, to be carried out on the day the order was given, to attack into the northern territory of the State of Israel — what they called ‘The plan to conquer the Galilee,’” Hagari said.
In this planned invasion, “Hezbollah intended to raid Israeli territory, occupy the communities of the Galilee, and murder and kidnap Israeli citizens — similar to what Hamas did on October 7,” the spokesman continued.
“The commanders who we eliminated today” had been overseeing attacks on Israeli citizens since October 8, and planned to carry out more such attacks,” he added, calling Aqil “a terrorist with a great deal of blood on his hands, responsible for the deaths of many civilians and innocents.”
In a brief statement after the strike, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Our goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves.”
Hezbollah announced the death of 15 of its fighters after mourning Aqil, including senior commander Ahmed Mahmoud Wahbi who was confirmed to be one of those killed in the Israeli strike on Dahiyeh. Wahbi, also known as Hajj Abu Hussein Samir, was responsible for the group’s Central Training Unit and held several senior positions in the Radwan Force.
The deadly Israeli strike on Beirut came just a few days after an unprecedented sabotage attack in which pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon, killing 37 people and wounding more than 3,450 others.
Israel was also held responsible for the sabotage attack. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah vowed retaliation in his latest speech.
Hezbollah and its allies in Lebanon have been launching near-daily attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces in support of the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave last October. While Israel has so far limited its response to strikes, it appears to be heading to an all out war with Lebanon.
So far, the limited confrontation has resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as the deaths of at least 22 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 900 people have been killed, including 497 fighters of Hezbollah and over 150 civilians.
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fooking idiots. are hezbollah that dumb? keeping exploding pagers even when the first reports cameout! and waiting for zionists to take out key commanders!
hezbollah is also an islamonazi dogshits. a laughingstock across the middle east. nasrallah probably shitting his pants right now.
the seven plagues of lebanon:
first plague: exploding pagers
second plague: exploding walkie talkies
third plague: exploding heznobolla commanders 😂
fourth plague: coming soon
book of nobollah
someone didn’t get the memo on exploding pagers and then the nobollah commanders suddenly exploded
allahu ahk ba…
*dies
hezbollah firing rockets into israel: not an escalation
israel returning back the favor: major escalation
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
nobollah playing the victim card haha
back then when heznoballs celebrated the mass murder of israeli children, women and elderly but now why are they blaming and crying with their ball sacs exploded?
your retarded kike tricks of projecting your crimes onto others only work on the people you stuffed with fluoride and food poisoning and weren’t bright at all in the first place. poisoning the well metaphorically and literally. your only skills and that’s because of your little baphomet ball.s.
why are you throwing a tantrum? instead of getting triggered, why don’t you join heznoballs in lebanon and have your sac of balls exploded there? 🤣
i’m not throwing a tantrum, but am filled with righteous indignation by your disgusting behavior. the way you gloat about murder. you are a filthy kike monster. and you flaunt it. mark my words, it will be much less than a year, and you will not be gloating about anything at all.
was it righteous when heznoballs murdered six boys playing soccer then? why can’t you answer my question? are you stoopid or are you idiot?
kikelandia killed them with a iron dome missile gone awry. that is called manslaughter in america. i am very far from stupid, my iq is in the range where measuring doesn’t matter because there are too few people to compare against. do you understand statistics? kikeland has murdered tens of thousands of innocent children, and nothing any series of palestinians have done has come close.
lies lies blatant lies. that was 100% iranian rocket fired from heznoballs with pure evidence idiot. hezboballs started this mess and don’t play the victim card.
the kike tricks of projection work on the weak willed, the poisoned, and the hopelessly stupid. they do not work on me or anyone with a sense of decency, it is beyond clear who has killed more innocent people. i took the blinders off my eyes and found out kikes had been the problem in the holy land the whole time since balfour.
so was is okay that hez-no-balls commited war crimes? if yes, why they publicly deny and lie that their rocket killed six arab children in the soccer field?
just shove off with your obvious fake names crocus pooop pants
according to heznoballs, ibrahim aqil was an innocent child and therefore israel has committed war crimes
gloating about the children you have murdered… you dumb kikes have no self-reflection. jews who disobey such laws get the boot from the holy land, usually very violently.
how your reign of islamic terrorshits right now?
how was it that it backfires miserably?
the only terrorists in the region are the ones murdering children you godless loser.
you mean, heznoballs and hamassholes celebrating the child killers and rapists and mass murders.
the only religion that does so. islamonazism
this is the kike projection of their own crimes. there was never any evidence of hamas killing children and the idf has tacitly admitted that they were responsible for the huge majority of kike deaths via tanks and apache helos. you kikes gunned down your own people and blamed it on others. exactly like what you kikes did on 9/11.
furthermore a kike is somebody who is descended from jacob and claims to be a jew but instead of the ineffable almighty god as their lord, they have taken satan as their lord. they do not practice or follow the precepts of the torah. they follow the talmud, inspired by inbred kikes to serve themselves.
the payback time for terrorists has come. don’t be a terrorist; don’t hang around with terrorists; if you want to stay alive.
israel is a terrorist state, isn’t ? so what you are shitting from your virtual mouth?
the more rockets they fire, the more laughter comes up
where is iran when you need them? how’s that terror? how is it that it backfired?
does sf actually believe these israeli figures???
awesome 😀
it’s sickening knowing that they are going to keep this war business going now for decades, for their profits and so they can steal the whole world and enslave everyone into owning nothing and being happy from the dignity of unpaid labour. in effect what was tbevsugn over auschwitz or was it birkebau you know the one about the joy of work?
awesome! israel does an incredible job. the people of lebanon thank israel for eliminating the hated haz-nobollah terrorists!
if it is true that hezbollah has 100,000+ rockets and missiles they should be a bit quicker to fire them instead the usual 200/day (with reserves exaustion within 500 days). almost all intercepted btw.
hezbollah is weak and puppet force. pager proved this. israel hit them and wipe them out one by one. hezbollah has no progress at all. labanon will loose territory due to these incompetents