ALBAWABA - The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has released new details on the assassination of Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut.
It is worth noting that Shukr was killed on July 30 in Beirut's southern suburb a day before the assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, for which Israel was blamed over his death, in return, Israel decided to stay silent on Haniyeh's killing.
New details revealed in the killing of Fuad Shukr:
According to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, he had contacted Shukr just a few hours before he was killed. Iran and Hezbollah vowed to revenge the assassination of both Hamas leader and Hezbollah official. However, till this moment no move has been taken.
WSJ shared a new report under the headline "How Israel Killed a Ghost" and new details about the Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr, who once helped to form Shia fighters in Beirut to stop the Israeli invasion of Lebanon during its civil war.
According to the WSJ, Fuad Shukr, 61, was lured by a phone call to go from his office to his apartment, which happens to be in the same building, before Israeli airstrikes that targeted the building.
The American newspaper added that Israel had successfully breached into Hezbollah’s internal communications network and a call dragged Shukr from the second floor to his apartment on the seventh floor.
The Israeli authorities confirmed that the killing of Hezbollah commander Shukr was in response to the rocket attack on Majdal Shams which killed 12 children aged between 10 and 16 in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
On the other hand, Hezbollah released a statement regarding the WSJ report and "categorically denied the fabricated story reported by the newspaper," considering it "a story full of lies and completely baseless," Annahar reported on Sunday.
Hezbollah further stressed that "none of the three newspaper correspondents who wrote the article ever met any of the party's officials at all.
Therefore, the Iranian-backed group denied the story told by the American newspaper, labelled it as a "false story" and accused the WSJ of "promoting Israel propaganda".
