Ibrahim Aqil was killed after multiple Israeli missiles tore into the side of an apartment block in Beirut on Friday

Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah group confirmed in the early hours of Saturday that its top military commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed, calling him "one of its top leaders", without providing further details on his killing.

Operations chief killed in IDF strike had $7 million bounty on his head for two 1983 Beirut truck bombings that killed over 300 people at US embassy and a Marines barracks