Prominent Hezbollah official Ibrahim Aqil was killed in a targeted strike in the Jamous area south of Beirut on Friday, Hezbollah and the Israeli military said.

       Aqil, 62, was a Hezbollah leader who sat on the group’s military council. He led Hezbollah’s Operations Unit for two decades, the IDF said.

       “Ibrahim Aqil had the blood of many innocent people on his hands — Israelis, Americans, French, Lebanese and more,” Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an IDF spokesman, said in a video statement.