Hezbollah did not immediately confirm the death of Ibrahim Aqeel. The United States had accused him of being involved in bombings that killed more than 200 U.S. Marines and many others in Beirut in 1983.

The Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs was one of the Lebanese militant group’s top military officials

The Hezbollah leader wanted by the U.S. for the 1983 bombings that killed 300 Americans was killed in a Beirut strike, Israeli officials say.

Israel’s military targeted a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb Friday, Israeli officials said, escalating a days-long assault on the group’s communications and logistics infrastructure and shocking an already traumatized nation fearful of an all-out war.