Adam Kredo
Explosions rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Friday as Israeli forces kicked off "a new era" in their fight against Hezbollah by eliminating at least 20 of the terror group’s senior commanders in an airstrike.
Israeli warplanes conducted precision strikes across Beirut’s suburbs, targeting Hezbollah strongholds as part of an operation that signaled the Jewish state is prepared for some of the most intense fighting on its northern front in years. The Friday strikes marked the deadliest single-day attack on Beirut since the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. They also confirmed that Israel is in full war swing against Hezbollah after spending nearly a year engaged in smaller, tit-for-tat exchanges with the terror group in the wake of Oct. 7.
Senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil—who had a $7 million U.S. bounty on his head for his role in terror attacks dating back to the 1980s—was reportedly killed during the airstrikes, dealing a major blow to the terror group as it grapples with the fallout of this week’s mass pager and radio attacks. Israel said it completely annihilated the command force behind Hezbollah’s Radwan group, a special operations unit run by Aqil.
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