Hezbollah has officially denied a report by the Wall Street Journal detailing the assassination of its military commander, Fouad Shukur, in a recent Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut. The report highlighted Shukur’s secretive life and claimed he had evaded capture for decades.
The Wall Street Journal article, published last week, described how Shukru, who was killed in late July, “lived such a secretive life that few people knew his name or face before his death.” The article noted that his death “finally brought him out of the shadows.”
Tensions in the region have escalated since Shukur’s death, with Hezbollah vowing retaliation. Shukur was killed just hours before the assassination of Hamas’ political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, which was also attributed to Israel. Tehran has also promised a response to Haniyeh’s killing.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Shukur had evaded US capture for four decades, since his alleged involvement in planning the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 US military personnel and injured 128 others.
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