Matt Frei hears from Nada Maucourant Atallah (00:00) and Hannah McCarthy (03:00), two foreign correspondents in Beirut who have been reporting on the latest Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
At least 31 people were killed in total in the latest strike, according to Lebanese officials. The victims included three children and seven women. Some 68 were wounded.
Wahbi oversaw the work of the Radwan special Hezbollah unit, which were said to have launched raids south into Israel.
Aqil was designated as a global terrorist by the US Justice Department for his alleged role in the 1983 US embassy bombings in Beirut which resulted in the deaths of 63 people.
Palestinian militant group Hamas, who are engaged in their own 11-month war with Israel in Gaza, said the killing of Aqil was a "folly" and a "crime. They said that Israel would "pay the price".
Eleven others are believed to have died while at least 66 are injured following the drone strike which hit an apartment block in the city.
It comes after the UN said that pager attacks, which killed dozens in Lebanon and injured thousands more, broke international law. Israel has been widely blamed for the exploding electronic devices, but has not taken responsibility.
In a statement on X, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said: “With the precise intelligence direction of the Intelligence Division, air force fighter jets targeted the Beirut area and killed Ibrahim Aqil, the head of the Hezbollah terrorist organization’s operations team, the acting commander of the Radwan [special forces] unit.
"In the attack, together with Akil, the top operatives and the chain of command of the Radwan unit were eliminated.”
This comes amid a backdrop of rising tensions in the Middle East after handheld devices across Lebanon exploded on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 37.
Friday's Israeli strike came after Hezbollah launched 140 rockets at the country's northern border.
Israel's military has reported the Hezbollah rockets arrived in three waves, targeting sites along its war-torn border with Lebanon.
Hezbollah claimed it struck the border with around 120 Katyusha rockets, hitting multiple air defence bases as well as the headquarters of an Israeli armoured brigade.
The Israeli ambulance service confirmed there has been no immediate reports of casualties.
A further 20 were shot at the areas of Meron and Netua.
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