On Sunday, Hezbollah categorically denied a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report about the Israeli killing of senior commander Fuad Shukr.
In a statement, Hezbollah’s media relations office said the WSJ was full of lies and completely baseless. It was emphasized that none of the three journalists, whom the paper states wrote the article, had met any Hezbollah official.
“Hereby, the narrative, which is fundamentally false and attributed to a false source, exists only in the imagination of the writers and does nothing but propagandize for the Zionist enemy. The mentioned newspapers as well as numerous Lebanese and Arab media are used to publishing such false narratives without any review or verification, as they base their positions on such allegations in an attempt to serve the Zionist scheme,” Hezbollah said.
Sunday’s WSJ article, titled: “How Israel Killed a Ghost,” claims that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency hacked Hezbollah’s communications network and used the phone call to track and kill Shukr.
Commenting on the article, Salem Zahran, director of the Media Center, denied the WSJ’s allegations, stating that Hezbollah does not operate in this way.
He stressed that Shukr was never on the seventh floor during the assassination in Beirut’s Dahiyeh, contrary to what the reports claimed.
