Beirut: Prime Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr was killed in an Israeli assault in southern Lebanon on Tuesday (native time), the Israel Protection Forces stated. The assault was carried out in response to a rocket assault on the Golan Heights that killed 12 youngsters, the Occasions of Israel reported.
The IDF stated in an announcement that the Israeli assault killed prime Hezbollah navy commander Fuad Shukr. Shukr was on Hezbollah’s prime navy physique, the Jihad Council, and was thought-about the top of its strategic division. In response to the military, he was managing Hezbollah’s assaults towards Israel for the reason that assault by Hamas on October 7. This consists of the lethal assault in Majdal Shams over the weekend by which 12 kids had been killed.
The IDF says Shukr was liable for most of Hezbollah’s superior weapons, the Occasions of Israel reported. It consists of precision guided missiles, cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, long-range rockets and UAVs. He was liable for the terrorist group’s drive constructing, planning terrorist assaults towards Israel and finishing up the assaults.
The IDF stated in a publish on X, ‘Fuaad Shukr Sayyed Muhsan, Hezbollah’s most senior navy commander and Hassan Nasrallah’s proper hand man, was concerned within the bloodbath.’ Shukr directed Hezbollah’s assaults on Israel since October 8. He was the commander liable for the killing of 12 kids in Majdal Shams in northern Israel on Saturday night. He was additionally liable for the killing of a number of Israeli and overseas residents over the previous a number of years.
US Vice President Kamala Harris reacted to the event and expressed assist for Israel, saying that Tel Aviv has the proper to defend itself. He additionally harassed the necessity to discover a diplomatic answer to finish these assaults. Israel has the proper to defend itself towards a terrorist group.
That is Hezbollah. Regardless of all this, we should work on a diplomatic answer to finish these assaults and we’ll proceed to take action, he advised reporters, as quoted by Politico. In the meantime, each the Iran-backed Houthis and Hamas have condemned the Israeli assault in separate statements, CNN reported.