Hezbollah military commander claimed killed by Israel was blamed by the US for 1983 Marine bombing

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Hezbollah military commander claimed ******* by ******* was blamed by the US for 1983 Marine ********

BEIRUT (AP) — The Hezbollah commander who the ******** military says it ******* in an airstrike Tuesday had been blamed by ******* for a deadly weekend rocket ******* and was accused by the U.S. of orchestrating the 1983 ******** in Beirut

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A statement from ******** military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said the target of the strike, Fouad Shukur, was behind the Saturday rocket ******* on

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that ******* 12 young people in the ********-occupied Golan Heights of Syria.

Hezbollah, which denied it was behind the Majdal Shams *******, didn’t confirm that Shukur was the target of Tuesday’s airstrike or that he was *******.

If *******’s claim proves true, Shukur would be the most senior Hezbollah commander to be ******* since 2016,

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, the group’s military commander in Syria, ***** in an ********** in the Syrian capital of Damascus.

The ******** military said that Shukur had directed Hezbollah’s attacks on ******* since Oct. 8, after the *******-****** war erupted, and that he was also involved in “the ******** of numerous Israelis and foreign nationals over the years.”

It said Shukur was responsible for the majority of Hezbollah’s most advanced weaponry, including guided missiles, cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, long-range rockets and UAVs.

The 62-year-old, secretive Shukur was in charge of Hezbollah’s forces in southern Lebanon along the border with ******* as well as being a top official in the group’s missile program.

He had been a close aide to Hezbollah’s top military chief, Imad Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in 2008 by a car ***** in Damascus. Shukur had since been a close military adviser to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Like most of Hezbollah’s military officials, little is known about Shukur, who was also known as Sayed Mohsen. The U.S. Treasury Department had offered a $5 million reward for information about him.

He joined Hezbollah when the group was founded following the 1982 ******** invasion of Lebanon that forced the Palestine Liberation Organization to leave Lebanon.

Shukur, who was a member of Hezbollah’s Jihadi Council, the group’s top military body, was accused by the ******* States of planning and staging the truck ******** of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut that ******* 241 ********* service members.

The ******** near the Beirut International Airport on Oct. 23, 1983, ******** the deadliest single-day ******* on Marines since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. A near-simultaneous ******* on French forces ******* 58 paratroopers.

The U.S. Treasury Department listed Shukur as a “specially designated national” on July 21, 2015, for acting for or on behalf of Hezbollah.

Like most Hezbollah military officials, Shukur played a role during Syria’s conflict that broke out in 2011 in which the Iran-backed Hezbollah sent thousands of fighters to join President Bashar Assad’s Syrian forces, helping tip the balance in his favor.

After the *******-****** war broke out Oct. 7, Shukur was accused by ******* of being behind many of the drone and missile attacks that Hezbollah carried out against *******.

In the thousands of rockets it has fired since October, Hezbollah has insisted it targets military and intelligence installations. Still, Hezbollah rockets have hit civilian areas. Before Saturday’s bloodshed, its strikes had ******* 13 civilians and 22 soldiers in *******. In Lebanon. *******’s attacks have ******* more than 500 people, including 90 civilians.

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