He was eliminated as part of a week-long campaign of IAF strikes on the Shati Battalion, during which several key terrorists from the unit were killed. Aqilan was in charge of commanding the Nahal Oz massacre on October 7,

A war monitor said on Tuesday that Israel had conducted 300 strikes on Syria since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, adding that the raids had "destroyed the most important military sites" in the country.