Fuad Shukr

Fuad Shukr (Arabic: فؤاد شكر; 1962 - July 30, 2024), also known as Al-Hajj Mohsen^[1] [Mohsin], was the senior military commander in the Hezbollah Islamist-terrorist organization, a senior military advisor to the organization's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, and a member of the senior body of the organization - the Jihad Council - its top molitary body.. He served as the commander of the missile accuracy project ^[2] on behalf of the organization.

Fuad-Shukr

On July 30, 2024, the IDF eliminated top Hezbollah commander in Beirut in response to July 27, 2024 Shams massacre of 12 kids playing in a soccer field in Majdal Shamas, a Druze village in Golan, Israel.

Shukr was also wanted^[3] by the US for the 1983 bombing of marine barracks in Beirut that killed some 300 American and French soldiers.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

The White House said: 'Our commitment to Israel’s security is ironclad'.^[8]

The "Palestinian" Rashida Tlaib condemned the death of this terrorist on FBI most wanted list. ^[9]

References

↑ Designation of Fu'ad Shukr as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist FBI, Sep 9, 2019
↑ Hezbollah's Iran-led missile precision project exposed, IDF, Aug 29, 2019
↑ Fuad Shukr Rewards for Justice
↑ IDF kills top Hezbollah commander in Beirut in response to Majdal Shams attack. By Emanuel Fabian. and Agencies. Times Of Israel 30 Jul, 2024.

Fuad Shukr considered by Israel to be terror group’s most senior military officer, ‘right-hand man’ to chief Hassan Nasrallah , 9:58 pm Updated at (31 Jul) 12:36 am
The Israel Defense Forces struck a building in southern Beirut on Tuesday evening, killing the Hezbollah terror group’s most senior military commander, who Israel said was responsible for Saturday’s deadly rocket attack on Majdal Shams.
A loud blast was heard and a plume of smoke could be seen rising above the southern suburb of Dahieh — a stronghold of the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group — at around 7:40 p.m., a Reuters witness said. Lebanon’s health ministry said three people were killed, including two children, and 74 people were wounded in the strike.
The Israeli military took credit for the strike, saying initially that it had targeted a commander responsible for the Majdal Shams rocket fire and other deadly attacks on Israel. It later confirmed that the target was Fuad Shukr and that he had been killed in the airstrike.
In a statement, the IDF said that Shukr, also known as Hajj Mohsin, was Hezbollah’s most senior military commander. Shukr sat on the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s top military body, and was the head of its strategic division, the military said.
The IDF said he was also a senior military advisor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, serving as his “right-hand man.”
Since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, Shukr has been managing Hezbollah’s attacks against Israel, including the deadly strike in Majdal Shams over the weekend, killing 12 children, according to the military.
The IDF said he 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 for the terror group’s “force build-up, planning, and execution of terror attacks against the State of Israel.”
He joined Hezbollah in 1985 and has held several senior positions. The IDF said that in the 1990s he advanced numerous attacks against the IDF and allied South Lebanon Army, and in 2000, was involved in the abduction of three Israeli soldiers in an attack in the Mount Dov area.
Shukr was named by the IDF several years ago as a commander of Hezbollah’s precision missile project. He is also wanted by the United States for his role in the 1983 bombing of a US Marines barracks in Beirut, with a $5 million bounty placed on his head by Washington.
According to the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice program, in addition to advising Nasrallah, Shukr sits on the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s top military body.
Shukr played a “central role” in the 1983 bombing of US Marine Corps barracks that left 241 US marines dead, according to the State Department. The State Department reported that during the Syrian civil war he “aided [Hezbollah] fighters and pro-Syrian regime troops” as they battled anti-Assad forces.
Hezbollah did not immediately confirm Shukr’s death, and some earlier media reports claimed that he had survived the attack.
Lebanon’s state-run national news agency said the Israeli strike targeted the area around Hezbollah’s Shura Council in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut’s Dahieh suburb.
Shortly after the strike, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tweeted in English: “Hezbollah crossed the red line.”
The strike came after days of Israeli officials threatening a harsh response to the Hezbollah rocket attack that killed 12 children playing on a soccer field and playground in Majdal Shams, a Druze town in the Golan Heights.
The IDF said shortly after midnight that there were no immediate changes to the Home Front Command guidelines for Israeli civilians, despite fears of a possible Hezbollah counterattack.
“We have very good air defense systems, but the defense is not hermetic,” IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a press conference, adding that the public should be vigilant and follow the Home Front Command guidelines.
He said the IDF is holding assessments on the home front, and would update if there are any changes.
“We are not looking to go to war, but we are well prepared for it,” Hagari said. “Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon and the entire Middle East into an escalation.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, with his chief of staff Tzachi Braverman, his military secretary Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, in a photo released soon after an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah target in Beirut, July 30, 2024 (PMO) The Israeli airstrike was precipitated by a flurry of diplomatic activity with Western nations seeking to avoid a larger escalation and urging both Israeli and Lebanese officials to practice restraint. A number of airlines canceled flights to Beirut over the past few days, and Lufthansa canceled several flights to Tel Aviv.
Shortly after the strike, US State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told a briefing that “we’re continuing to work toward a diplomatic resolution that would allow Israeli and Lebanese civilians to return to their homes and live in peace and security. We certainly want to avoid any kind of escalation.”
Patel reiterated that US support for Israel remained “ironclad” and that “Israel has every right to defend itself” and “certainly faces threats like no other country does in that region of the world.”
The Russian foreign ministry called the Israeli strike on Beirut “a flagrant violation of international law,” according to the Russian state-run TASS news agency.
A man inspects a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) According to the Kan public broadcaster, the security cabinet was not updated ahead of the strike in Beirut. The outlet also reported that the US is expected to approve of the strike, especially given the fact that Shukr was wanted for the killing of 241 US servicemen. Channel 12 news reported that ministers were ordered not to publicly comment on the strike.
The heads of UNIFIL — the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon — and UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hannis-Plasschaert were speaking to both Lebanon and Israel in an attempt to prevent the outbreak of war, UN Secretary-General spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said.
Earlier Tuesday, Hezbollah fired a volley of 10 rockets toward the Upper Galilee, killing an Israeli civilian in Kibbutz HaGoshrim. The victim was later named as Nir Popko, 28, from the kibbutz.
The IDF said that most of the rockets fired by Hezbollah were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had launched dozens of rockets at a nearby military base. The military said it was shelling the launch site with artillery.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 25 civilian deaths on the Israeli side — including in Tuesday’s attack — as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 384 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 68 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
↑ IDF kills Hezbollah commander behind brutal attack on children's soccer field: officials. By Andrea Vacchiano Fox News, July 30, 2024.
Fuad Shukr, whose death is unconfirmed by Hezbollah, was wanted by US government in connection to 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.
↑ Who Is Fuad Shukr, Target of the Israeli Strike on Beirut? By Aaron Boxerman, Ronen Bergman and Euan Ward. The New York Times, July 30, 2024.

He is also wanted for his role in a 1983 attack in Beirut that killed some 300 American and French soldiers.
Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander and target of an Israeli strike on Beirut, was said to be a close adviser to the group’s leader and someone wanted by the U.S. government for his role in a 1983 bombing attack that killed roughly 300 American and French soldiers in Beirut.
↑ IDF strikes Beirut: Hezbollah commander responsible for Majdal Shams strike confirmed killed. By Gadi Zaig, Reuters, Jerusalem Post Staff, Darcie Grunblatt. The Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2024
↑ White House: 'Our commitment to Israel’s security is ironclad'. Israel National News" Jul 31, 2024
↑ Gary Willig, Rashida Tlaib condemns death of terrorist on FBI most wanted list.INN, Jul 31, 2024,
Anti-Israel Congresswoman criticized for condemning strike in which Fuad Shakr was killed after ignoring the massacre of 12 children he was responsible for. Shakr was also responsible for the 1983 killing of 241 US servicemen.

"The Mufti.. concocted a new kind of antisemitism that combined traditional Muslim antisemitism, like the anti-Jewish verses you find in the Koran, with the Nazi antisemitism that demonised Jews... His whole ideology was antisemitic and from the very beginning he targeted Jews, not Zionists."

The difference between lies and reality is sometimes just a color on a map

W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."

"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."

The only tweet (July 2014) on the Twitter account of the late American Elan Ganeles - murdered by Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" on Feb 27, 2023 hy"d: "I think you're always going to have tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise."

[1] Designation of Fu'ad Shukr as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist FBI, Sep 9, 2019

[2] Hezbollah's Iran-led missile precision project exposed, IDF, Aug 29, 2019

[3] Fuad Shukr Rewards for Justice

[4] IDF kills top Hezbollah commander in Beirut in response to Majdal Shams attack. By Emanuel Fabian. and Agencies. Times Of Israel 30 Jul, 2024.

Fuad Shukr considered by Israel to be terror group’s most senior military officer, ‘right-hand man’ to chief Hassan Nasrallah , 9:58 pm Updated at (31 Jul) 12:36 am
The Israel Defense Forces struck a building in southern Beirut on Tuesday evening, killing the Hezbollah terror group’s most senior military commander, who Israel said was responsible for Saturday’s deadly rocket attack on Majdal Shams.
A loud blast was heard and a plume of smoke could be seen rising above the southern suburb of Dahieh — a stronghold of the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group — at around 7:40 p.m., a Reuters witness said. Lebanon’s health ministry said three people were killed, including two children, and 74 people were wounded in the strike.
The Israeli military took credit for the strike, saying initially that it had targeted a commander responsible for the Majdal Shams rocket fire and other deadly attacks on Israel. It later confirmed that the target was Fuad Shukr and that he had been killed in the airstrike.
In a statement, the IDF said that Shukr, also known as Hajj Mohsin, was Hezbollah’s most senior military commander. Shukr sat on the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s top military body, and was the head of its strategic division, the military said.
The IDF said he was also a senior military advisor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, serving as his “right-hand man.”
Since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, Shukr has been managing Hezbollah’s attacks against Israel, including the deadly strike in Majdal Shams over the weekend, killing 12 children, according to the military.
The IDF said he 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 for the terror group’s “force build-up, planning, and execution of terror attacks against the State of Israel.”
He joined Hezbollah in 1985 and has held several senior positions. The IDF said that in the 1990s he advanced numerous attacks against the IDF and allied South Lebanon Army, and in 2000, was involved in the abduction of three Israeli soldiers in an attack in the Mount Dov area.
Shukr was named by the IDF several years ago as a commander of Hezbollah’s precision missile project. He is also wanted by the United States for his role in the 1983 bombing of a US Marines barracks in Beirut, with a $5 million bounty placed on his head by Washington.
According to the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice program, in addition to advising Nasrallah, Shukr sits on the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s top military body.
Shukr played a “central role” in the 1983 bombing of US Marine Corps barracks that left 241 US marines dead, according to the State Department. The State Department reported that during the Syrian civil war he “aided [Hezbollah] fighters and pro-Syrian regime troops” as they battled anti-Assad forces.
Hezbollah did not immediately confirm Shukr’s death, and some earlier media reports claimed that he had survived the attack.
Lebanon’s state-run national news agency said the Israeli strike targeted the area around Hezbollah’s Shura Council in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut’s Dahieh suburb.
Shortly after the strike, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tweeted in English: “Hezbollah crossed the red line.”
The strike came after days of Israeli officials threatening a harsh response to the Hezbollah rocket attack that killed 12 children playing on a soccer field and playground in Majdal Shams, a Druze town in the Golan Heights.
The IDF said shortly after midnight that there were no immediate changes to the Home Front Command guidelines for Israeli civilians, despite fears of a possible Hezbollah counterattack.
“We have very good air defense systems, but the defense is not hermetic,” IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a press conference, adding that the public should be vigilant and follow the Home Front Command guidelines.
He said the IDF is holding assessments on the home front, and would update if there are any changes.
“We are not looking to go to war, but we are well prepared for it,” Hagari said. “Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon and the entire Middle East into an escalation.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, with his chief of staff Tzachi Braverman, his military secretary Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, in a photo released soon after an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah target in Beirut, July 30, 2024 (PMO) The Israeli airstrike was precipitated by a flurry of diplomatic activity with Western nations seeking to avoid a larger escalation and urging both Israeli and Lebanese officials to practice restraint. A number of airlines canceled flights to Beirut over the past few days, and Lufthansa canceled several flights to Tel Aviv.
Shortly after the strike, US State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told a briefing that “we’re continuing to work toward a diplomatic resolution that would allow Israeli and Lebanese civilians to return to their homes and live in peace and security. We certainly want to avoid any kind of escalation.”
Patel reiterated that US support for Israel remained “ironclad” and that “Israel has every right to defend itself” and “certainly faces threats like no other country does in that region of the world.”
The Russian foreign ministry called the Israeli strike on Beirut “a flagrant violation of international law,” according to the Russian state-run TASS news agency.
A man inspects a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) According to the Kan public broadcaster, the security cabinet was not updated ahead of the strike in Beirut. The outlet also reported that the US is expected to approve of the strike, especially given the fact that Shukr was wanted for the killing of 241 US servicemen. Channel 12 news reported that ministers were ordered not to publicly comment on the strike.
The heads of UNIFIL — the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon — and UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hannis-Plasschaert were speaking to both Lebanon and Israel in an attempt to prevent the outbreak of war, UN Secretary-General spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said.
Earlier Tuesday, Hezbollah fired a volley of 10 rockets toward the Upper Galilee, killing an Israeli civilian in Kibbutz HaGoshrim. The victim was later named as Nir Popko, 28, from the kibbutz.
The IDF said that most of the rockets fired by Hezbollah were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had launched dozens of rockets at a nearby military base. The military said it was shelling the launch site with artillery.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 25 civilian deaths on the Israeli side — including in Tuesday’s attack — as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 384 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 68 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.

[5] IDF kills Hezbollah commander behind brutal attack on children's soccer field: officials. By Andrea Vacchiano Fox News, July 30, 2024.
Fuad Shukr, whose death is unconfirmed by Hezbollah, was wanted by US government in connection to 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.

[6] Who Is Fuad Shukr, Target of the Israeli Strike on Beirut? By Aaron Boxerman, Ronen Bergman and Euan Ward. The New York Times, July 30, 2024.

He is also wanted for his role in a 1983 attack in Beirut that killed some 300 American and French soldiers.
Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander and target of an Israeli strike on Beirut, was said to be a close adviser to the group’s leader and someone wanted by the U.S. government for his role in a 1983 bombing attack that killed roughly 300 American and French soldiers in Beirut.

[7] IDF strikes Beirut: Hezbollah commander responsible for Majdal Shams strike confirmed killed. By Gadi Zaig, Reuters, Jerusalem Post Staff, Darcie Grunblatt. The Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2024

[8] White House: 'Our commitment to Israel’s security is ironclad'. Israel National News" Jul 31, 2024

[9] Gary Willig, Rashida Tlaib condemns death of terrorist on FBI most wanted list.INN, Jul 31, 2024,
Anti-Israel Congresswoman criticized for condemning strike in which Fuad Shakr was killed after ignoring the massacre of 12 children he was responsible for. Shakr was also responsible for the 1983 killing of 241 US servicemen.

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