Hezbollah categorically denied on Sunday a report by the Wall Street Journal on the Israeli assassination of senior Jihadi commander Fuad Shokr.
In a statement, Hezbollah’s Media Relations Office said the WSJ is full of lies and completely baseless.
It stressed that none of the three journalists, whom the paper said the article was wrote by them, have met any of Hezbollah officials.
“Hereby, the narrative, which is fundamentally false and attributed to a false source, exists only in the writers’ imagination and has nothing to do but to propagate for the Zionist enemy,” the statement read.
“The aforementioned newspaper as well as a number of Lebanese and Arab media outlets have been accustomed to publish such false narratives without any review or verification, as they rely their positions on such allegations in a bid to serve the Zionist scheme,” Hezbollah’s Media Relations Office added.
The WSJ’s Sunday article, entitled: “How Israel Killed a Ghost”, claimed that Israeli intelligence agency Mossad breached Hezbollah’s communication network and used a phone call to track and kill Shokr.
Commenting on the article, Salem Zahran, the Director of the Media Center, has refuted the allegations made by the WSJ, asserting that Hezbollah does not operate in this manner.
He emphasized that Shokr was never on the seventh floor during the assassination crime in Beirut’s Dahiyeh, contrary to the report’s claims.
Other commentators dismissed the WSJ report, urging the paper to double check its sources.
Saw @WSJ article on the assassination of Fuad Shukr, I reckon they should re-vet their sources. There’s absolutely breaches within the ranks, but for someone to call Shukr and lure him into the second floor of a building that’s new to me. The only one who can call Shukr this way… pic.twitter.com/sD4fUMMNE8
— Ali Hashem علي هاشم (@alihashem_tv) August 18, 2024
Source: Al-Manar English Website
