IDF targets Beirut suburb in retaliation for attack that killed 12 in the Golan

The Israeli military said it had carried out an airstrike in a suburb of southern Beirut, targeting a commander they say was in charge of an attack on Israeli-controlled Golan Heights that last week killed 12 young people.

Israel’s military says it has killed a Hezbollah official who it blamed for a deadly attack last week on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights that killed 12 young people.

The Israel Defense Forces said it killed Fuad Shukr on Tuesday in an airstrike in the area of Beirut in Lebanon.

The IDF said that Shukr “was the commander responsible for the murder of the 12 children in Majdal Shams in northern Israel on Saturday evening, as well as the killing of numerous Israelis and foreign nationals over the years.”

Israel was targeting Shukr, better known by his nickname, Hajj Mohsen, in the strike in a suburb of southern Beirut, an Israeli official told NBC News. Mohsen is a senior adviser to Hezbollah’s supreme leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and a member of the group’s military council, according to a U.S. government profile.

Shukr “has the blood of many Israelis on his hands. Tonight, we have shown that the blood of our people has a price, and that there is no place out of reach for our forces to this end,” Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/idf-hits-beirut-retaliation-golan-majdal-shams-lebanon-rcna164322

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