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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Hezbollah says top leader Fuad Shukr was in building hit by Israeli strike, does not yet confirm his death
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
People gather near a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Hezbollah issues its first statement on Israel’s assassination of the terror group’s top military commander Fuad Shukr last night, saying he was present in the building in Beirut when it was struck, but does not confirm his death.
It says that civil defense teams are working “diligently but slowly” to clear the rubble, and therefore “we are still waiting for the result of this action [including] the fate of the great commander and other civilians.”
