The spokesman of the Israeli army, Rear-Admiral Daniel Hagari, said this evening that, along with Ibrahim Aqil, about ten high-ranking commanders of the Lebanese Hezbollah were killed in an Israeli air strike on southern Beirut that took place today.
Hagari told a press conference that Aqil and other members of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan unit had gathered in the basement of a building when they were targeted and killed.
The Times of Israel reports that Hagari said that they were “the commanders who prepared and led the plan of the terrorist organization Hezbollah to attack the northern territory of the State of Israel, and they would carry it out the day the order was issued.”
An Israeli military spokesman claims that as part of that invasion, Hezbollah planned an incursion into Israeli territory similar to the attack by Hamas from Gaza into southern Israeli territory on October 7 last year. Then the war between Israel and that Palestinian organization began.
Meanwhile, Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Galant announced on Platform X that the country will continue “the sequence of actions in the new phase” of the conflict with Hezbollah until the goal of returning Israelis displaced by the cross-border conflict safely to their homes is achieved.
Galant said that the assessment of the situation with the head of the Israeli army and senior officers after the assassination of Hezbollah commander Aqil in Lebanon has been completed.
