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Hezbollah Jihad Council member Ibrahim Aqil was target of Beirut strike, sources say
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The target of the Israeli airstrike in Lebanon’s capital Beirut a short while ago was Ibrahim Aqil, security sources tell Israeli media.
Aqil sits on the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s top military body.
He has also been wanted by the United States for his role in the 1983 bombing of a US Marines barracks in Beirut, as well as directing the taking of American and German hostages in Lebanon in the 1980s.
The US had placed a $7 million bounty on Aqil.
