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Phone call lured Hezbollah’s Shukr to killing location: WSJ report
Senior military commander Fuad Shukr received a phone call to go to the seventh floor of his residential building in Beirut before he was assassinated by an Israeli air attack, The Wall Street Journal says in a report, quoting an unnamed Hezbollah official.

“The call to draw Shukr to the seventh floor, where he would be easier to target amid the surrounding buildings, likely came from someone who had breached Hezbollah’s internal communications network,” the official told the newspaper.

The report cited the official saying Hezbollah and Iran continue to investigate the intelligence failure, but believe that Israel beat the group’s countersurveillance system.

Israel assassinated Shukr on July 31, prompting vows of retaliation from the Lebanese movement.

Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging regular fire for months, but the exchanges have been kept within tacitly understood red lines that risk being erased if the conflict escalates.



Only Gaza ceasefire will delay retaliation, say Iranian officials
Only a ceasefire deal in Gaza stemming from hoped-for talks this week would hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on its soil, three senior Iranian officials said.
Iran has vowed a severe response to Haniyeh's killing, which took place as he visited Tehran late last month and which it blamed on Israel. Israel has neither confirmed or denied its involvement. The U.S. Navy has deployed warships and a submarine to the Middle East to bolster Israeli defenses.
One of the sources, a senior Iranian security official, said Iran, along with allies such as Hezbollah, would launch a direct attack if the Gaza talks fail or it perceives Israel is dragging out negotiations. The sources did not say how long Iran would allow for talks to progress before responding.
With an increased risk of a broader Middle East war after the killings of Haniyeh and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, Iran has been involved in intense dialogue with Western countries and the United States in recent days on ways to calibrate retaliation, said the sources, who all spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.(Reuters)