Israeli attack on the Da'aheh neighborhood in Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. The Harat Harik area was targeted with the aim of killing a senior leader, Fouad Sukar, considered the number two of the organization led by Hassan Nasrallah. Sources close to Hezbollah said there were at least two deaths, but Sukar survived.
According to the sources, a coordination office of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is located at the site of the attack. The Lebanese newspaper "Al-Mayadeen" writes that the attack also targeted a residential building and caused its partial collapse. The other target was hit near the Shura Council of Iran-linked Shiite militias.
The raid was aimed at targeting the person "responsible for the murder of children in Majdal Shams and the killing of numerous other Israeli civilians."
For the US State Department - reported by the Israeli media - Fuad Shukr, also known as Hajj Mohsin, was military advisor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. He was also part of the Jihad Council, Hezbollah's military body and, according to the same source, had a "central role" in the 1983 attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 soldiers. During the Syrian civil war "he helped pro-regime fighters and troops".
“Hezbollah has crossed the red line,” declared Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant a few minutes after the IDF attack.
(Unioneonline/ss)
