The US State Department has awarded a $5 million reward for information about the Hezbollah commander Israel allegedly targeted in an attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday (30).
The department’s “Rewards for Justice” website says Fu’ad Shukr is also known as al-Hajj Mohsin.
“Shukr serves in Hezbollah’s largest military wing, the Jihad Council, and has assisted Hezbollah fighters and pro-Syrian troops in Hezbollah’s military campaign against Syrian opposition forces inside Syria,” the website writes.
Shukr “played a central role in the October 23, 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. service members and wounded 128 others,” they said.
In September 2019, the State Department designated him a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order 13224,” more than four years after the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Shukr and two other Hezbollah leaders.
Israeli military says commander killed
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that Hezbollah’s “highest-ranking military commander,” Fu’ad Shukr, was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday (30). However, a Lebanese government official told CNN that the commander survived the Israeli offensive in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
An Israeli official confirmed to CNN that the target of the attack was Shukr.
Source: CNN Brasil
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