Israel has killed a key Hezbollah military official nicknamed "The Ghost."
To achieve this, a high-tech operation was carried out by intelligence services and hackers.
The Wall Street Journal learned the details. We are talking about a military leader named Fuad Shukr.
He was an extremely secretive man who almost never appeared in public. For this reason, he received the nickname "The Phantom".
Very few people knew what the man even looked like. When news of his death broke, Lebanese media published a photo of the wrong man.
Israel carried out an operation to eliminate him on July 30. It all happened in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.
Shukr lived and worked in a multi-story building. He had an office on the 2nd floor and an apartment on the 7th.
On the evening of the assassination, someone contacted the officer on the Hezbollah intranet and told him to go to his apartment. When the security services were sure that the target was in his home, they opened fire.
As a result of the shell hit, Shukr himself, his wife, two children and two other women were killed.
The US has offered a $5 million reward for the murder or capture of Shukr. He was put on Washington's "black list" back in 1983, when he was about 20 years old.
According to the US, Shukr was involved in the explosion of a truck carrying American troops. Washington accused him of killing 241 Marines.
But the Americans could not get to him for 40 years, because Shukr led an extremely closed life and almost never appeared in public.
He had been associated with Hezbollah his entire adult life and was considered one of the organization's first military commanders. He was considered a key link between Hezbollah and Iran.
