The media relations department of "Hezbollah" firmly denied the fabricated narrative reported by the Wall Street Journal concerning the martyrdom of the jihadist leader Mr. Fouad Shukr. They stated, "This narrative is full of lies and has no basis in truth whatsoever." They emphasized that "none of the three reporters who signed the aforementioned article ever met with any Hezbollah officials at all. Thus, this false narrative is entirely fictional and the attributed source is nothing more than the imagination of its authors, with the sole aim of promoting and advertising for the Zionist enemy. This is a practice that the mentioned newspaper and several Lebanese and Arab media outlets have engaged in, publishing this false narrative without any review or verification and building their positions in service of the Zionist project."
The American newspaper "Wall Street Journal" reported that, according to a Hezbollah official, on the day of the assassination of Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr on July 30, he received a phone call requesting him to move from the second floor to his apartment on the seventh floor of the building where he was residing. It added, "After that, Israel bombed Shukr's apartment and the three floors beneath it, resulting in his death." According to the newspaper, "the call that led him to the seventh floor—where he would be an easier target—apparently came from someone who breached Hezbollah's internal communication network."
