Hezbollah confirms top commander Fuad Shukr killed in strike
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FILE PHOTO: An undated photograph of Muhsin Shukr, also known as Fuad Shukr, and described by Lebanese security sources as head of Hezbollah's operations center, appears on a wanted poster circulated by the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security S
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah confirmed on Wednesday that senior military commander Fuad Shukr had been killed, more than 24 hours after an Israeli strike hit a building in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital that he was in.
The group said that its leader, Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, would make an address on the occasion of Shukr's funeral on Thursday.
(Reporting by Maya Gebeily and Timour Azhari, Editing by William Maclean)
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