Hezbollah says top commander Fuad Shukr killed in Israeli strike on Beirut
Al Jazeera
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said three people, including two children, were killed and 74 wounded in the attack.
Lebanese group Hezbollah has confirmed in a statement that its senior commander Fuad Shukr was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Beirut.
On Tuesday, the Israeli military said it carried out a “precision strike” in Beirut that killed Shukr. According to Israeli military planners, he had been responsible for the missile strike that killed twelve children playing football in Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights on Saturday.
Hezbollah who previously said Shukr had survived, said in a statement on Telegram that “the great jihadist commander brother Fuad Shukr (Hajj Mohsen) was present” in the building targeted by “the Zionist enemy”.
Announcing his death, the group added that Shukr’s presence was “a distinctive force for resistance” and said that their leader, Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, would make an address on the occasion of Shukr’s funeral on Thursday.
On Tuesday, the attack on a densely populated area in Beirut’s suburbs hit the Haret Hreik neighbourhood near Hezbollah’s Shura Council, its central decision-making authority.
