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Body of Hezbollah's Fuad Shukr found under rubble of Beirut blast

 
 People walk on the rubble of a damaged site the day after an Israeli strike, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon July 31, 2024 (photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMED AZAKIR)
People walk on the rubble of a damaged site the day after an Israeli strike, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon July 31, 2024
(photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMED AZAKIR)

The IDF said the targeted assassination of Hezbollah's most senior commander was retaliation for the deadly attack on Majdal Shams.

Hezbollah confirmed on Wednesday that its military commander, Fuad Shukr, was killed in the IDF's strike in Beirut on Tuesday, the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen said. 

Earlier on Wednesday, two security sources told Reuters that the body of Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr has been found in rubble in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, 

Lebanon's Hezbollah said early on Wednesday its senior commander was in the building in the southern suburbs of Beirut targeted by an Israeli strike.

The IDF announced late on Tuesday it had killed Shukr, whom it named as Hezbollah's most senior commander and blamed for an attack at the weekend that left a dozen youths dead in the Golan Heights.

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 IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi seen during an exercise in northern Israel, July 31, 2024 (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi seen during an exercise in northern Israel, July 31, 2024 (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

Halevi in North: 'We also know how to maneuver strongly'

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi visited a military exercise in the North on Wednesday and spoke of Israel's maneuvering capabilities. 

"The IDF knows how to operate and reach a certain window in a neighborhood in Beirut; it also knows how to attack at a certain point in the underground, and we also know how to maneuver inside very strongly," he said.

"We have confidence in our plans to move forward because our intention with Hezbollah is not to return to October 6," Halevi added.

Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.

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