Posted on 08/18/24
| News Source: JPost
On the last day of Fuad Shukr’s life, he was in his office on the second floor of a Beirut residential building, when that evening, Shukr received a phone call at 7 p.m. in which he was told to go to his apartment on the seventh floor where he was shortly thereafter killed, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a Hezbollah official.
The explosion also killed his wife, two other women, and two children, and 70 individuals were wounded, according to Lebanon’s Hezbollah-run health ministry.
The call that urged Shukr to move to the seventh floor of the building likely came from an individual who had infiltrated Hezbollah’s internal communications network, the WSJ reported, citing the Hezbollah official.
Hezbollah and Iran are still investigating the intelligence failure, however, the official believes that it came down to the fact that Israel's technology and hacking were better than Hezbollah’s countersurveillance.
Shukr had lived a secretive life, according to the WSJ, and hardly anyone ever saw him. He lived in and worked in the same building in the southern Beirut neighborhood of Dahiyeh, so he would not need to move around outside.