Hezbollah commander involved in US embassy and Marine Corps bombings is killed in targeted Israeli strike

A senior Hezbollah commander, Ibrahim Aqil, has been killed in a targeted strike in Beirut, Lebanon, the Israeli military confirmed.

Aqil, commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan special forces unit, who had eluded capture for decades, had a $7 million State Department reward for information leading to his arrest. He played a “principal” part in the bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983, which killed 63 people, as well as the bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in the same year, which killed 241 U.S. personnel. In 2019 he was listed as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” by the State Department.