Attack was retaliation for deadly incident in Golan Heights that has been blamed on the Lebanese militant group
Israel said on Tuesday it had killed a senior Hizbollah commander in an air strike on Beirut, stating the operation was retaliation against the individual responsible for a deadly rocket attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli military said Fuad Shukr died in the attack on an area of southern Beirut that is a Hizbollah stronghold.
Washington has described Shukr as a senior adviser to Nasrallah on military affairs and a member of Hizbollah’s highest military body, the Jihad Council. The US placed Shukr on its specially designated global terrorist list in 2019. The critical question will be how Hizbollah, which is considered one of the world’s most heavily armed non-state actors, responds to the Israeli strike.
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