Israeli forces claim senior Hezbollah commander killed in targeted counterstrike

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday afternoon announced that it had killed a senior commander of Hezbollah, after launching a targeted counterstrike in Lebanon on Tuesday morning.

The terrorist organization launched an attack on Israel over the weekend, which killed 12 children at a soccer field in northern Israel and injured more than two dozen others.

The IDF claimed that senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr "Sayyid Muhsan" was killed in the airstrike, describing him as the head of its Strategic Unit and the right-hand man of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.

"The IDF announces today ... that in a targeted, intelligence-based elimination, Israeli Air Force fighter jets eliminated the Hezbollah terrorist organization's most senior military commander and the head of its Strategic Unit, Fuad Shukr "Sayyid Muhsan", in the area of Beirut," the IDF said in a statement.

"Fuad Shukr has directed Hezbollah's attacks on the State of Israel since October 8th, and he 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," the defense force added.

Shukr has been part of Hezbollah since 1985, the defense forces said.

The United States put a $5 million bounty on Shukr for his role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. military personnel and wounded 128 others, according to the Justice Department.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.