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Israel Strikes Beirut Targeting Hezbollah Commander Responsible for Deadly Golan Heights Attack (Update)

by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that they targeted a Hezbollah commander in Beirut today who was responsible for the weekend attack on Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights over the weekend that killed at least 12 Israeli Druze children and teenagers.

Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s top military commander and a close aide to terror leader Hassan Nasrallah for three decades, was killed in a strike that left a significant hole in the side of an eight-story apartment building in southern Beirut, according to a late Tuesday announcement by the IDF.

Shukr, also known as “Hajj Mohsen” and “Muhsin Shukr,” had a $5 million bounty from the United States Rewards for Justice program for his role in the 1983 bombing of a US Marines barracks in Beirut.

Shukr 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” and oversaw the Iranian-backed terror group’s “force build-up, planning, and execution of terror attacks against the State of Israel,” according to the IDF.

Lebanon’s state-run national news agency reported that the Israeli strike targeted the area around Hezbollah’s Shura Council in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of the capital.

Following the IDF’s airstrike in southern Beirut, UN Secretary-General spokesman Stéphane Dujarric reported that the heads of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon and UN Special Coordinator Jeanine Hannis-Plasschaert are engaging with both Lebanon and Israel to prevent the escalation into war.

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