Top Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli airstrikes

News/ World (Kumasi, Ghana) Sep 20 (Futball Surgery News)- Israel seems to have something beyond Hezbollah-used pager and walkie talkie explosions, a Tuesday and Wednesday attacks across Lebanon killing more than 30 people and injuring at least 3,000.

Hezbollah has vowed to strike back, and in the wake that the Iran-backed militant group have not acted, they continue to be at the suffering end after a top leader of the armed group killed Friday in Israeli airstrikes.

The Reuters are reportung that a top Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut on Friday, citing two security sources.

According to one of the sources, Aqil was killed alongside members of the Hezbollah elite Radwan unit while they were holding a meeting.

The US justice department had designated Aqil as a global terrorist for his alleged role in the 1983 US embassy bombings in Beirut which killed 63 people, as well as the US Marine barracks attacks that year that killed 241 US personnel.

Known also as Tahsin, Aqil allegedly also directed the taking of American and German hostages in Lebanon and held them there in the 1980s, according to the US justice department.