Aql Hashem

Akel Hashem
Personal details
Born 1952
Debel, Lebanon
Died January 30, 2000
Debel, Lebanon
Nationality Lebanon, Free Lebanon State
Spouse(s) Lea Kassab
Children

Rita Hashem Odine Hashem Elias Hashem Georges Hashem

Chantal Hashem
Occupation South Lebanese Army Colonel
Religion Maronite
Military service
Allegiance Army of Free Lebanon/Free Lebanon State/South Lebanon Army
Years of service 1976 - 2000
Rank Colonel
Battles/wars Lebanese Civil War
South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)

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.[1]

Akel Hashem was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the SLA[2] 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 [3]

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.[4]

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