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2024-07-31 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF strikes Beirut: Hezbollah commander responsible for Majdal Shams strike confirmed killed
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 [Jpost] The city has been on edge for days ahead of an anticipated Israeli attack in retaliation in Majdal Shams, where Israel and the United States have blamed Hezbollah for the attack.
Israeli Air Force fighter jets killed Hezbollah's most senior military commander and the head of its Strategic Unit, Fuad Shukr "Sayyid Muhsan," in the area of Beirut Tuesday afternoon.
Shukr is a Hezbollah commander who was responsible for the strike on Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights a few days earlier, which killed 12 Israeli Druze youth.
The Hezbollah official had a $5 million bounty "on his head," according to the United States Rewards for Justice.
Shukr was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's military adviser and has been active in the terrorist organization for 30 years, where he was the head of the terrorist group's operations room, three senior security sources told Reuters. Shukar also goes by the names "Hajj Mohsen" and "Muhsin Shukr."
Fuad was responsible for the majority of Hezbollah's most advanced weaponry, including precise-guided missiles, cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, long-range rockets, and UAVs, the IDF reported. He was responsible for building Hezbollah forces and planning and executing terror attacks against the State of Israel.
Shukr was sanctioned by the United States in 2015.
Fuad joined Hezbollah in 1985 and has held several senior positions within the terrorist organization. He was also a member of the Jihad Council, Hezbollah's most senior military forum.
In the 1990s, Fuad orchestrated numerous attacks against the IDF and the South Lebanon Army. In 2000, he was directly involved in the abduction of the bodies of three IDF soldiers: St.-Sgt. Benyamin Avraham, St.-Sgt. Adi Avitan, and St.-Sgt. Omar Sawaid. They were killed by Hezbollah terrorists while patrolling the security fence adjacent to Har Dov.
Since then, Fuad has planned and directed numerous terror attacks against innocent civilians.
Directly after the strike, a loud blast was heard, and a plume of smoke could be seen rising above the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital as a result of the strike, a stronghold of the Lebanese terrorist group.
Two people were killed in the attack, Saudi news source Al-Hadath reported.
CASUALTIES IN STRIKE
A correspondent for Al-Mayadeen, a news source affiliated with Hezbollah, said that the strike in the city was in a densely populated area and that there were about 10 wounded - not clarifying if those wounded were civilians or terrorists. State media, on the other hand, said that one woman was killed and seven people were wounded.
The correspondent also claimed that the strike was at a residential building adjacent to the Bahman Hospital.
Lebanon's state-run national news agency said the strike targeted the area around Hezbollah's Shura Council in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of the capital.
The US State Department said on Tuesday that the United States will continue pursuing diplomacy to avert an escalation of the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Earlier on Tuesday, Hezbollah said it fired at Israeli warplanes that broke the sound barrier in Lebanese airspace, adding that it forced the warplanes to turn back.
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