Jonathan D. Strum
On July 30, Fuad Shukr, a top deputy to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, was targeted and killed in an Israeli bombing attack in South Beirut.
Shukr was targeted as the person responsible for the July 27 rocket attack on an Israeli military base in the Golan Heights, where an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket with a warhead of over 110 pounds of explosives hit a soccer field that morning in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, killing 12 children and injuring 50 others.
Hours later, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by a bomb in his government-provided guest house in Tehran while attending the inauguration of the new Iranian president.
Shukr was Hezbollah’s top military commander, labeled by the U.S. as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist.” He was tied directly to the Beirut Marine barracks bombing in 1983 (an underreported fact), which killed 241 U.S. Marines and 56 French troops. Haniyeh was the long-time political leader of Hamas and, for the past eight years, was based in Qatar.
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