The “Rewards for Justice” entity of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service released a wanted poster with a photo of Muhsin Shukr, also known as Fuad Shukr. The man in the undated photo was described by a Lebanese security source as the head of Hezbollah’s operations center.
Fuad Shukr, a Hezbollah commander believed by Israel to have been killed in an airstrike in Beirut on Tuesday (July 30), had been one of the group's top military figures since it was founded by Iran's Revolutionary Guard more than four decades ago.
The United States says Shukr, now believed to be in his 60s, played a leading role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 U.S. service members, and has offered a reward of up to $5 million for his head, according to the U.S. government's Rewards for Justice website.
He was the target of what the Israeli army said was a targeted attack on a Hezbollah commander responsible for an attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 children and teenagers last weekend.
Hezbollah denied involvement in the attack.
An Israeli broadcaster reported that the commander was killed.
Two security sources in Lebanon previously named the target as Shukr, describing him as the head of Hezbollah's operations center. They said he was seriously wounded in the attack near Hezbollah's Shura Council headquarters in the Haret Hreik area. (ns/uh)
