Hezbollah mourned senior commander Ibrahim Akil (Hajj Abdul Qader), who was martyred along with his fellows in the Israeli aggression on Dahiyeh on Friday.
The Lebanese resistance group issued a statement mourning the top commander, with the Military Media within Hezbollah issuing a biography, videos and photos of Hajj Abdul Qader.
Biography of the Senior Jihadi Commander Ibrahim Mohammad Akil (Hajj Abdul Qader)
– Place and Date of Birth: Bednayel (Bekaa) on 24-12-1962
– One of the founders of the Islamic activity in Beirut (in the early 1980s)
– He led heroic operations in confronting the Israeli invasion of Beirut in the early 1980s
– He took charge of Hezbollah’s central training in the early 1990s and played a key role in developing human capabilities within the resistance (group) formations
– He took responsibility for the Islamic Resistance’s General Staff in the mid-1990s
– Led Jabal Amel Operations Unit from 1997 until after the liberation in 2000 and directly commanded many significant operations during that period
– He established the Operations Branch of the Islamic Resistance
– Since 2008 he served as the Deputy Secretary-General for Operations and was appointed as a member of the Jihadi Council
– One of the commanders in the heroic resistance against the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in 2006
– He supervised the establishment, development, and leadership of Al-Radwan Force in the Islamic Resistance until his martyrdom
– One of the senior Jihadi commanders who planned and managed operations against Takfiri groups on Lebanon’s eastern borders, in Qusayr, Qalamoun, and other Syrian regions
– He planned and supervised the leadership of Al-Radwan Force’s military operations on the Lebanese support front since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood
– He ascended as a martyr all the way to Al-Quds following a treacherous Israeli assassination on 20/09/2024 in Beirut’s southern suburb, Dahieyh
Meanwhile, Hezbollah Military Media also published a biography of commander Ahmad Mahmoud Wehbi (Haj Abu Hussein Samir), who was martyred during Friday’s aggression.
– Place and date of birth: Adloun (South Lebanon), November 1, 1964
– He joined the ranks of the Islamic Resistance since establishment and participated in many military operations during the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon
– He was captured and imprisoned by the Israeli enemy in 1984
– He was one of the field commanders in the 1997 qualitative ambush in Ansariyyeh
– He held various leadership responsibilities in Hezbollah’s Central Training Unit until 2007
– He took on the responsibility of training in the Radwan Force until 2012.
– He was in charge of Hezbollah’s Central Training Unit until 2014, playing a key role in developing human capabilities across various formations of the Islamic Resistance
– He was the commander of the Radwan Force until early 2024
– He was one of the key leaders in confronting Takfiri attacks on Lebanon’s eastern borders and in various Syrian provinces
– He commanded military operations of the Radwan Force on the Lebanese support front from the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood battle until early 2024, before resuming his role in the Central Training Unit after the martyrdom of commander Hajj Wissam Al-Tawil
– He ascended as a martyr all the way to Al-Quds following a treacherous Israeli assassination operation on September 20, 2024, in Beirut’s southern suburb, Dahiyeh
Source: AFP (edited by Al-Manar English Website staff)