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Senior Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli strike in Beirut

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Israel launched an air strike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday, the Israeli army said. The Israeli military's chief spokesman, Daniel Hagari, said the strike on Beirut's southern Dahiya district killed Ibrahim Akil, a commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force, as well as 10 other Hezbollah operatives. 

Hezbollah confirmed Akil's death and Lebanon's Health Ministry said at least 14 people were killed and 66 others wounded in the attack. The Israeli army claimed Akil had been meeting with other militants in the basement of the apartment building which was struck.

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