Hezbollah reacts to ‘fabricated’ WSJ story on Fuad Shukr’s assassination
We reported earlier today that The Wall Steet Journal has cited an unnamed Hezbollah official as saying that the Lebanese armed group’s senior military commander Fuad Shukr received a phone call to go to the seventh floor of his residential building in Beirut before he was assassinated on July 31 in an Israeli air attack.
The group said in a statement on Telegram that the report was “fabricated”, claiming the story was “full of lies”. It said, “None of the three newspaper correspondents who put their names on the aforementioned article have ever met any Hezbollah officials at all.”
“Therefore, the false story from its foundation and the source attributed to it are nothing more than the imagination of its writers,” Hezbollah added. The article aimed to spread Israeli propaganda “in the service of the Zionist project”, it said.
WSJ has been caught in lies before, wouldn't surprise me. US media keeps falling for Israeli propaganda or willfully spreads it.
Hezbollah claims attack on Israeli army site in northern Israel
On Telegram, the Lebanese group says its fighters struck the al-Marj outpost with rockets. The group added the attack, which hit the military site directly, was carried out at 8:15am (05:15 GMT).
One killed in Israeli drone attack in southern Lebanon: Report
The National News Agency of Lebanon reports that an Israeli drone has targeted and killed an individual on a motorcycle on the outskirts of the town of Shebaa.
Israeli raid injures UNIFIL peacekeeper in Lebanon’s ad-Dhahira: Report
Israeli warplanes have carried out air attacks in southern Lebanon’s ad-Dhahira and Tayr Harfa towns, according to Lebanese media.
The raid in ad-Dhahira injured one of the Ghanaian soldiers stationed in the area as part of the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL, the Lebanon 24 broadcaster reported.
#عاجل| الاحتلال يقصف بلدة الضهيرة جنوب لبنان. pic.twitter.com/RqVgcOxghQ
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UNIFIL says 3 members injured in blast in south Lebanon
We are receiving updates on the reports of an explosion near members of a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
The UNIFIL has confirmed the incident, saying three peacekeepers on patrol were “lightly injured” when a blast occurred near their clearly marked UN vehicle in the village of Yarin in southern Lebanon.
“All peacekeepers in the patrol returned safely to their base,” UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti said, giving no further details on the nature of the incident. “We are looking into the incident. We are strongly reminding all parties and actors of their responsibility to avoid harm to peacekeepers and civilians,” he added.
Lebanese media previously reported that a member of the UNIFIL force was injured after an Israeli attack in the Tyre district in southern Lebanon.
A general view of a base of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at the Lebanese-Israeli border
