Hezbollah says top commander was killed in Lebanon from an Israeli airstrike

The terrorist group Hezbollah announced Saturday that another one if its top commanders was killed in an Israeli airstrike. 

The commander was identified as Ahmed Wahbi, who oversaw military operations of the group's Radwan special forces unit. 

Sixteen members of Hezbollah were killed in the Friday strike, according to Fox News.

Ibrahim Aqil, was another Hezbollah commander killed in the strike. 

"We can now confirm that Ibrahim Aqil was eliminated together with other senior terrorists in Hezbollah’s Radwan Forces," Israel said in a Friday statement. 

"During the 1980s, Aqil was a principal member of Hezbollah’s terrorist cell the Islamic Jihad Organization, which claimed responsibility for the bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, which killed 63 people, and the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in October 1983, which killed 241 U.S. personnel," according to the U.S. State Department.  

Lebanon's health minister said the death toll for the strike was 31 people, including seven women and three children. 

Health Minister Firass Abiad told reporters that 68 people suffered injuries.