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******* says top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil *******

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The strike caused at least one building in Beirut to collapse

******* says senior Hezbollah figures, including a top military commander, were ******* in an air strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday, in a major escalation that has added to fears of an all-out war.

At least 14 people were ******* and dozens injured, Lebanese officials said, in the strike that hit the densely populated Dahieh area, a stronghold of the Iran-backed group in the city’s southern suburbs.

There were chaotic scenes as emergency teams rushed to the site of the *******, rescuing the wounded and searching for people believed to be trapped under the rubble. At least one residential building collapsed and others were heavily damaged.

Streets were closed by Hezbollah members, some looking incredulous as the ******* represented another humiliating ***** in a week which saw pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to the group explode.

Dozens were ******* and thousands wounded in those attacks, widely believed to be orchestrated by *******.

Friday’s strike was the first to hit Beirut since July, when

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In a statement, ******* Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Ibrahim Aqil, a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, was ******* alongside senior operatives in the group’s operations staff and other Radwan commanders.

Hezbollah has not confirmed the deaths.

Hagari said the individuals ******* were “planning Hezbollah’s ‘Conquer the Galilee’ ******* plan, in which Hezbollah intended to infiltrate ******** communities and ******* innocent civilians”.

The plan was first reported by the ******** military in 2018, when

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by Hezbollah to penetrate ******** territory and kidnap and ******* civilians.

In April, Washington said it was searching for Aqil, also known as Tashin, and offered financial rewards to anyone with “information leading to his identification, location, arrest and/or conviction”.

He was wanted by the US due to his links and seniority within Hezbollah, a group that has been proscribed a ********** organisation by *******, the ***, US and other countries.

In the 1980s, Aqil was a member of the group that orchestrated the bombings of the US embassy in Beirut and a marine barracks, ******** hundreds of people.

Hezbollah was established in the early 1980s by the region’s most dominant Shia power, Iran, to oppose *******. At the time, *******’s forces had occupied southern Lebanon during the country’s civil war.

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Earlier on Friday, Hezbollah said it had launched strikes on military sites in northern *******. The IDF said 140 rockets were fired into the north of the country, while ******** police issued warnings about damage to roads.

It came after ******* carried out extensive air strikes on southern Lebanon, saying its warplanes had hit more than 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers and other “********** sites” including a weapons storage facility.

The cross-border fighting between ******* and Hezbollah escalated on 8 October 2023 – the day after the unprecedented ******* on ******* by ****** gunmen from Gaza – when Hezbollah fired at ******** positions in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Since then hundreds of people, most of them Hezbollah fighters, have been ******* in the cross-border fighting, while tens of thousands have also been displaced on both sides of the border.

******* recently added the return of people displaced from the north of the country to its list of war goals, and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Thursday that his country is entering a “new phase of the war”, concentrating more of its efforts on the north.

After the pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Lebanon earlier this week, there has been a deepened sense of unease in the Middle Eastern country.

It was an unprecedented security breach that indicated how deeply ******* had managed to penetrate the group’s communication system.

Many of the explosions occurred simultaneously, with walkie-talkie explosions on Wednesday occurring in the vicinity of a large crowd that had gathered for the funerals of four victims of Tuesday’s pager blasts.

Hezbollah and Lebanese authorities have blamed ******* for the explosions.

******** officials have not commented on the allegations, but most analysts agree that it is behind the *******.

In a televised address on Thursday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said: “The ****** crossed all rules, laws and red lines. It didn’t care about anything at all, not morally, not humanely, not legally.”

Nasrallah vowed a harsh punishment, but indicated his group was not interested in an escalation of its current conflict with *******.

US and *** authorities have urged their citizens not to travel to Lebanon. The White House said it was involved in intense diplomacy to prevent escalation of the conflict along the *******-Lebanon border.

Reiterating previous calls, the *** Foreign Office said it is “continuing to advise people to leave Lebanon now while commercial routes remain available”.

The BBC understands that during a Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR) meeting officials discussed ongoing preparedness work, particularly with regards to British nationals, should there be any further escalation.



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