(The Hill) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it targeted a Hezbollah commander responsible for a Saturday attack that killed 12 children in an Israeli town.
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The target, Fuad Shukr, a senior advisor on military affairs to Hezbollah’s leader, Hasan Nasrallah, was killed in the attack, according to the IDF.
“Hezbollah crossed the red line,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on social media platform X.
Iranian state-run media Press TV claimed the attack killed two people but was unsuccessful in killing Shukr.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would not comment on the strike but stressed the U.S. was still hopeful it can reach a diplomatic agreement between Israel and Hezbollah as fears of a wider war mount.
“We do not believe that an all-out war is inevitable, and we believe it can be avoided,” she told reporters.
Shukr served on the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s highest military body, and was Nasrallah’s right-hand man, directing and planning military operations along with overseeing drone, missile and force deployment.
He also had a $5 million reward on his head from the FBI for a 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut that killed 241American troops.
