Hezbollah senior commander Fouad Shukr. (Hezbollah Military Media)
Hezbollah confirmed on July 31 that senior commander Fuad Shukr was killed in an Israeli strike that targeted the outskirts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, making him the most senior figure from the group to be killed in the ongoing conflict with Israel.
Shukr’s body was reportedly found under the rubble nearly 24 hours after the strike that hit Dahieh, Hezbollah’s stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
A military adviser from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Milad Bedi was killed in the strike along with Shukr. In addition, Lebanon’s health ministry said that the strike claimed the lives of five civilians, including two children, and left 80 other people wounded.
Shukr was one of Hezbollah’s most senior commanders and a military advisor to the group’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
The strike on Beirut happened hours before the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the early hours of July 31 in Iran.
It was Israel’s response to a blast that killed 12 civilians in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights on July 28. The Israeli military alleged that a rocket fired by Hezbollah was behind the blast. However, the group denied targeting the Syrian town.
Hezbollah said in a statement that Nasrallah would speak during Shukr’s funeral on August 1 and clarify the group’s “political stance” from the strike on Beirut. The group warned Israel more than once against targeting the Lebanese capital in the past and said that it would hit the city of Tel Aviv in response.
Hezbollah and its allies have been launching attacks from Lebanon against Israel since the outbreak of the war on the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October. Aside from the last strike on Beirut, Israel has so far limited its response to air and artillery strikes on Lebanon’s south and the eastern Bekaa Valley.
Still, the limited border clashes have so far claimed the lives of at least 30 Israelis and more than 600 people on the Lebanese side.
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izrel is a brown mark on the story of humanity. you seriously have to question the jews, after so many times being expelled and despised by so many people, they must be doing something wrong. then there is the fake country of izrel, which has seen nonstop violence and racism in the region since 1948. the story does not end well for these gypsies
everything short of hitting israeli dimona nuclear plant, the ammonium nitrate plant, or the surpreme high court of israel, or the knesset pit of devils itself, will not be an appropriate answer from hezbollah. israel killed tons of high-ranking hezbollah medium & now even high ranking hamas, hezb & iranian personal. if hezbollah doesnt anser appropriate & without warning and “none escalation calculus embedded” – it will only result in motivating israeli to continue assasinations.
that khamenei openly announced that he has “ordered direct strike on israel” is already a clear sign that it is all a ‘storm inside a water-bottle’. nothing else. because if you really want to hit an enemy hard, you do not warn him about it, so that he has time to prepare himself for it. this whole iranian reaction stuff is mere kindergarden and a shame to all (shia) muslimeen.
rest in peace sayyed mohsen, the peoples of lebanon syria and palestine thank you for your service and will continue on the path you helped to build. ¡hasta la resistencia siempre!
only khazar demon blood can avenge the crimes of the maggots nested in palestine. let loose the dogs of war and destroy the hollow co$t abomination once and for all.
who let the dogs out ?
fuad shukr is just doing fine. he was immediately sent by allah to join me in an instant speedy trip to 72 virgin jackpot :)
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