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BEIRUT/JERUSALEM — Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday, the Israel i military and two security sources in Lebanon said, sharply escalating the year-long conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group. Israel i military said that Aqil , who served on Hezbollah 's top military body, was the acting commander of the group's elite Radwan force and that he was killed along with other senior commanders of the unit.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said he was not aware of any Israeli notification to the United States before the Beirut strike, adding that Americans were strongly urged not to travel to Lebanon, or to leave if they are already there."War is not inevitable up there at the Blue Line, and we're going to continue to do everything we can to try to prevent it," said Kirby, referring to the frontier between Lebanon and Israel.
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