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Israeli military says it killed Shukr
In a statement, the Israeli military stated that it had killed Fuad Shukr in “a targeted intelligence-based elimination”.
It also claimed that Shukr was the head of Hezbollah’s strategic unit and Hezbollah leader Nasrallah’s “right-hand man” who was his “advisor for planning and directing wartime operations”.
The Israeli military added that he was the commander responsible for Saturday’s attack on Majdal Shams which killed a dozen people.
Hezbollah says that Shukr survived the attack and the group has denied responsibility for the attack on Majdal Shams.
A wounded man is rushed to Bahman Hospital after the Israeli military struck Beirut’s southern suburb, on July 30
Lebanon says three killed in Beirut strike
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says three people, including two children, have been killed and 74 wounded in the Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
The “non-final toll of the Israeli aggression on the southern suburbs of Beirut… is three martyrs, including a woman, a girl and a boy”. The ministry added that “the search for missing persons under the rubble continues”.
A man inspects a destroyed building hit by an Israeli air strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday
UN’s Lebanon envoy ‘deeply concerned’ by Israeli strike on Beirut
The UN’s special coordinator for Lebanon has voiced concerns after the Israeli strike on Beirut which she said resulted in multiple civilian casualties.
UN Special Coordinator Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert “underscores once again that there is no such thing as a military solution to the ongoing conflict”, the envoy’s office said in a statement.
‘There is no place out of reach for our forces’: Gallant
The Israeli defence minister has praised the military following the attack on southern Beirut.
“Tonight, we have shown that the blood of our people has a price and that there is no place out of reach for our forces to this end,” Gallant said.
Tonight, the IDF conducted a precise and professional operation to eliminate Hezbollah’s most senior military commander.
Fuad Shukr ‘Sayyid’ Muhsan has the blood of many Israelis on his hands. Tonight, we have shown that the blood of our people has a price, and that there is no…
— יואב גלנט - Yoav Gallant (@yoavgallant) July 30, 2024
A woman injured in an Israeli military strike on a building in Beirut’s southern suburb on July 30, 2024, is escorted as she leaves Bahman Hospital
US carries out ‘self-defence’ strikes in Iraq as regional tensions grow
The US military has carried out “self-defence” strikes in Iraq, the Reuters news agency reports, as regional tensions grow after Israel claimed it had assassinated a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon.
An anonymous US official told Reuters that the strike, the first by US forces in Iraq since February, was carried out because of a threat to coalition forces stationed there.
Blasts at a military base south of Baghdad hosting several Iran-aligned armed groups killed four people and injured three on Tuesday. It’s not immediately clear if this is the same incident as the US strikes.
