Aql Hashem

Aql Hashem, also spelled Akel Hashem, was a colonel in the South Lebanon Army who served under Saad Haddad and later Antoine Lahad, he was born in Debel, Lebanon and spoke Hebrew and Arabic fluently. Akel Hashem was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the SLA and had avoided many assassination attempts by Hezbollah militants, but was eventually killed by a bomb outside his farm in Debel. Ephraim Sneh blamed Syria for the assassination One of the Hezbollah fighters who participated in his assassination was Khalid Bazzi, who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike during the 2006 Lebanon War. Hashem's family fled to Israel, but his wife and two of his children returned to Lebanon in 2013.