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During the surveillance, Mossad learned that Fuad Shukr felt “guilty” of juggling four women at once and married them all this year to correct his feelings.
Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr | File Image/AFP
Israel’s spy network has infiltrated so deeply into all aspects of Hezbollah’s leadership that the Jewish state knows about one of their senior commander’s four mistresses whom he married desperately over the phone.
Fuad Shukr, a co-founder of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, was a key figure in the terror group’s command chain and Israel’s Mossad spent decades collecting information on him until agents could track his personal life too.
During the surveillance, Mossad learned that Fuad Shukr felt “guilty” of juggling four women at once and married them all this year to correct his feelings, Israel and European officials aware of the matter told the New York Times.
Shukr, a mastermind of the deadly 1983 bombings in Beirut that killed 241 American Marines, was among the hundreds of the Hezbollah commanders being tracked down by the Israeli intelligence forces since the end of the 2006 war.
As Israel continued tracking down Shukr, intelligence teams got to know about his personal life- the extramarital affairs, which the Hezbollah commander kept hidden until he sought help in 2024 from the group’s highest religious cleric, Hashem Safieddine, according to the report.
It further revealed that Shukr asked Safieddine, killed in an airstrike in October, to marry him to his four mistresses. Safieddine gave him the advice and set up four separate over-the-phone wedding ceremonies for Shukr and each of his mistresses.
Shukr became a prime target for Israel after a missile attack in Majdal Shams in July, which resulted in the deaths of dozens of Israelis, including schoolchildren.
On July 30, Shukr allegedly received a phone call that lured him out of his hidden location in the southern Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh. An Israeli missile struck the area, killing him.
Lebanese officials confirmed that Shukr was killed along with one of his wives, two children, and two other women. Several Arabic media outlets reported that the wife who died was one of Shukr’s mistresses.