‘Dangerous escalation’: Members of Iran-backed axis bash Israel over Beirut strike

The Times of Israel reports: “Allies of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group condemned an Israeli strike on Beirut Tuesday evening that killed a senior commander of the group who Israel said was responsible for a rocket attack on Majdal Shams on Saturday which killed 12 children.

Angry denunciations rolled in from Tehran, Hamas, the Houthis and Lebanese leaders following the airstrike targeting Fuad Shukr, also known as Hajj Mohsin, a senior adviser to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Others in the international community expressed concern that the attack could escalate tensions on the already restive border between Israel and Lebanon.

The IDF said Shukr was Hezbollah’s top military commander and the head of its strategic division, responsible for near-daily attacks on northern Israel over the past 10 months and other deadly attacks over the years. Israel said he was behind a rocket attack that hit a soccer field and playground in the Druze Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams Saturday, killing 12 kids and teens.

Shukr was named by the IDF several years ago as a commander of Hezbollah’s precision missile project. He was also wanted by the United States for his role in the 1983 bombing of a US Marines barracks in Beirut, with a $5 million bounty placed on his head by Washington.

Iran foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani called the strike a ‘vicious’ attack but said it would not deter ‘Lebanon’s proud resistance from continuing the honorable path of supporting the oppressed Palestinians and standing against the aggression of the Israeli apartheid regime.’…”

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