Senior Hezbollah official targeted in Beirut strike was Ibrahim Aqil, reports say

 

People check the damage at the scene of an Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 20. 

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The target of Israel’s strike in southern Beirut on Friday was a senior Hezbollah official, according to a Lebanese security source and CNN’s Israeli affiliate Kan.

Israeli media and Axios report that the target was Ibrahim Aqil, a senior Hezbollah military figure.

The US government has offered a $7 million bounty for Aqil, whom it accused of playing a role in the 1983 Beirut bombing.