At least 31 people were killed during the Israeli attack in a residential neighborhood, including women and children
SEP 21, 2024
(Photo Credit: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah confirmed that senior commander Ibrahim Muhammad Aqil was among 31 killed during an Israeli airstrike that leveled two residential buildings in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiye on 20 September.
“Today, the great jihadist leader, Hajj Ibrahim Aqil, joined the procession of his brothers, the great martyr leaders, after a blessed life full of jihad, work, wounds, sacrifices, risks, challenges, achievements, and victories … Jerusalem was always in his heart, mind and thoughts day and night,” Hezbollah said in a statement.
Aqil was responsible for supervising the leadership of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force since the beginning of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the start of cross-border operations in the Lebanese south.
Another commander of the Radwan Force, Ahmad Mahmoud Wehbi, was killed in the strike along with 14 fighters.
According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, 31 people were killed, including 3 children and 7 women, and 68 were injured during the Israeli airstrike that hit a densely populated residential neighborhood in the middle of the day.
The attack came on the heels of two unprecedented terror attacks that saw Israeli intelligence agencies set off thousands of communication devices across the country, killing dozens and injuring thousands.
Speaking at the UN Security Council on Friday, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib called the Israeli attack “an unprecedented method of warfare in its brutality and terror.”
“Israel, through this terrorist aggression has violated the basic principles of international humanitarian law," he added.
“International humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby-trap devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects … It is a war crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among civilians,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said during the session.
