Who was the 'Number Two Military Man' of Hezbollah Lebanon killed in an Israeli attack?

The Israeli army announced on Friday, September 30, that in an airstrike on the 'Dahiyeh' area in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital, they killed Ibrahim Aqil, the number two military man of Hezbollah Lebanon, along with 10 members of the elite Hezbollah unit known as 'Radwan.' Ibrahim Aqil was the commander of special operations for Hezbollah and the head of the Radwan unit, which is supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran and designated as a 'terrorist' organization by the United States. The Israeli army stated that 'Ibrahim Aqil' and other commanders of the Radwan unit were present at a meeting in a tunnel in the Dahiyeh area. Who is Ibrahim Aqil? Ibrahim Aqil, also known as 'Bassem Tahseen,' was one of the most prominent military commanders of Hezbollah and one of the eight members of the 'Jihad Council,' the highest military body in Hezbollah. In the 1980s, Ibrahim Aqil was a key member of the 'Islamic Jihad' group, one of the factions affiliated with Hezbollah Lebanon, which claimed responsibility for the April 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. This group also claimed responsibility for the bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in October 1983 in Beirut, which killed 241 American military personnel. According to the U.S. State Department website, Ibrahim Aqil also commanded operations to take American and German citizens hostage in Lebanon during the 1980s. The U.S. State Department placed Ibrahim Aqil on its wanted list on July 21, 2015, and on September 19, 2019, he was listed as a 'terrorist.' On April 18, 2023, marking the 40th anniversary of the U.S. embassy bombing in Beirut, the 'Rewards for Justice' program, managed by the Diplomatic Security Service of the U.S. State Department, set a $7 million reward for information leading to the identification or capture of Ibrahim Aqil. Mustafa Badreddine, Ibrahim Aqil, and Fouad Shukr were three senior military commanders of Hezbollah Lebanon who were sanctioned by the U.S. State Department four years after the start of the Syrian civil war due to their roles in the Syrian massacres. Since then, Mustafa Badreddine was killed in an operation attributed to Israel in the spring of 2016 near Damascus International Airport. Badreddine's sister was the wife of Imad Mughniyeh, the then-senior commander of Hezbollah, who was also killed in February 2008 in an operation attributed to Israel in Kafr Souseh, Damascus. Fouad Shukr, who succeeded Badreddine, was killed on August 1 of this year in a 'targeted' Israeli attack in Dahiyeh, Beirut. Now, Ibrahim Aqil has been killed in the twelfth month of the Gaza war; a conflict in which Hezbollah Lebanon has engaged in harassment operations against Israel in support of the extremist group Hamas. The U.S. and the European Union consider Hamas a terrorist organization. In recent years, the name Ibrahim Aqil has been closely associated with the 'Radwan' special unit in Hezbollah for Israel and the U.S. Fearing an influx of hundreds of 'Radwan' forces into their northern settlements, similar to Hamas's surprise attack in October last year on southern Israel, Israel evacuated tens of thousands of residents from the north after Hezbollah also began supporting Gaza. The Israeli army assessed that the 'Radwan' unit had been trained for years to abduct Israeli citizens in the north of the country; Hezbollah's leadership repeatedly expressed such threats. 'Radwan' was the nickname of Imad Mughniyeh, who trained the special unit with the assistance of Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. During the Gaza war, Israel has killed dozens of other senior and mid-level Hezbollah commanders in various attacks. Hezbollah confirmed just a few days ago the deaths of over 450 of its forces in Israeli attacks over the past 350 days but stated that it would not disclose the exact number of its casualties in suspicious explosions of the pagers and radios of its forces that occurred on September 18 and 19. The group has also suffered thousands of injuries in these explosions, with hundreds of them losing their sight or becoming disabled in other body parts.