Fuad Shukr: From playing a role in capturing Zionist soldiers to field commander.

Fuad Shukr: From playing a role in capturing Zionist soldiers to field commander.

Fuad Shukr, known as “Hajj Mohsen”, was born on April 25, 1961, in the town of Nabi Shit in the Baalbek region of eastern Lebanon. From a young age, he laid the foundation stone for Hezbollah, along with 10 other young men from the region, and participated in the Battle of Khaldeh against the occupiers during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. He managed the operation to send Hezbollah forces to Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.

 

Al-Akhbar newspaper writes that Shukr was one of the first to think of a plan to capture Zionist soldiers to exchange them for fighters captured by the Zionist regime. He personally tried to carry out the capture operation in the Al-Jiyyah area during the siege of Beirut, but the captured soldier was killed, and it was not possible to transport his body to Beirut.

Shukar also personally supervised the operation to capture two Zionist soldiers in the town of Kunin in 1986, which was led by martyr Samir Matout, a first-generation member of Hezbollah.

Hajj Mohsen was responsible for the military planning of the Islamic resistance in Lebanon during the 33-Day War and subsequent wars against the Zionist regime. Shukar was the first central military official of Hezbollah since its establishment and was a member of the party’s Central Council and also a member of the Jihad Council.

Some identify Fuad Shukr as the senior advisor to the martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah, and the first of the party’s military commanders at the time of his martyrdom. Shukar worked in Hezbollah’s highest military body, the “Jihadi Council”, and also participated in the fight against terrorism in Syria.