Israel Says It Killed Hezbollah Commander in Beirut, in Response to Golan Heights Attack
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Israel said it killed one of Hezbollah’s top military leaders in an airstrike in Beirut intended as retaliation for a Saturday attack on the Israel-controlled Golan Heights that killed 12 young people, a response that came amid fears of a widening war in the Middle East.
The strike on Fuad Shukr, the highest-ranking leader of the group to be killed in years, risks sharply escalating tensions between Hezbollah and Israel. Hezbollah didn’t immediately say whether Shukr had died in the strike.
The Israeli strike comes at a dangerous moment in Israel’s nine-month conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, following that group’s Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel. During the conflict, Israel and Hezbollah have regularly exchanged fire across the Israel-Lebanon border, and the strike on Tuesday was the second time during the war that Israel has targeted Beirut, the Lebanese capital. An Israeli airstrike killed a senior Hamas leader in Beirut in January.
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