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Lebanon’s PM says Beirut strike on senior Hezbollah operative shows Israel gives no weight to ‘legal, moral considerations’
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati accuses Israel of giving “no weight to any humanitarian, legal or moral considerations,” after senior Hezbollah operative Ibrahim Aqil was said to have been killed in a Beirut strike described by the IDF as “targeted.”
Aqil had a a $7 million bounty placed on him by the US, 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.