Terror organization: Hezbollah;

Status: senior operative who is the military commander of Hezbollah’s forces in southern Lebanon. He serves on Hezbollah’s highest military body, the Jihad Council as one of the most dominant figures in it;

Role: senior advisor on military affairs to Hassan Nasrallah. He was a close associate of Imad Mughniyah. Shukr played a central role in the planning and execution of the 1983 U.S. Marine Corps Barracks Bombing in Beirut;

Fuad Shukr, aka Al-Hajj Mohsen, was de facto the most senior military commander in the terrorist organization Hezbollah and according to reports replaced Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badr al-Din after he died in 2016.

He was the head of Hezbollah military forces, and also served as a military advisor to the organization’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. Shukr was a member of the organization’s top body – the Jihad Council, the commander of Hezbollah’s missile accuracy project, and the head of the strategic array. On July 30, 2024, he was killed in an Israeli attack in Beirut, in response to the rocket hitting Majdal Shams.

Shukr was born on April 15, 1961 or 1962 in the village of Nabi Shit, in the Baalbak district of Lebanon, the village where former Hezbollah Secretary General Abbas Mousawi was born and where the Shukar and Mousawi clans live in close proximity. According to a Hezbollah report, a clan house Shukr was the last known place where Ron Arad was held before his traces were lost in May 1988. Shukar acquired his military education at Imam Hussein University in Tehran.

Shukr fought in the First Lebanon War in 1982 and was wounded in a battle in Khalda South of Beirut, near Beirut International Airport.

He participated in the planning and execution of the attacks on the bases of the Multinational Force in Beirut on October 23, 1983, which resulted in the killing of 241 United States Army soldiers, 58 French soldiers, and 8 Lebanese civilians. Following this, Shukar became a close associate of Imad Mughniyeh. In 2017, the United States announced a reward of 5 million dollars for anyone who would provide information that would help in the capture of Shukar, because he played a central role in carrying out the attack.

In 1985, he joined the Hezbollah organization, and was part of the group of founders, along with Imad Mughniyeh, Mustafa Badr al-Din and Mustafa Shahada. He advanced in Hezbollah and became a senior through the military track. He served as a central military commander in the early years of the organization and in the early 1990s, he coordinated, planned and carried out operations and attacks against IDF soldiers in Lebanon, especially special operations. Between the years 1992-1995 he organized the sending of a group of Hezbollah fighters to Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the aim of training Muslims in the Bosnian war. According to American intelligence reports, in September 1994 he was sent as a representative of Hezbollah to Tehran to deliver to the organization Stinger missiles, American short-range shoulder-fired missiles that were seized as loot in Iraq and Afghanistan and arrived in Iran. According to the IDF, he was involved in the kidnapping of IDF soldiers. in Mount Dov in 2000.

In the period preceding the civil war in Syria, Shukr served as the commander of the South Lebanon Sector – Hezbollah’s central sector. In the civil war, he helped Hezbollah fighters who fought alongside the Assad regime in the opposition forces. He led military operations in Syria together with Mustafa Badr al-Din and in cooperation with the Quds Force.

Shukr was a member of the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s supreme command since its inception. He served as a senior military advisor to the leadership of Hezbollah and Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on operations, military and military operations, as well as on the training and arming of paramilitary organizations such as the Shia militias in Afghanistan and Iraq and underground in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and the promotion of foreign attacks together with the Quds Force.

In 2019, the IDF revealed that Shukr was the commander of the Hezbollah Precision Missile Project, a project of Iran and Hezbollah to develop and manufacture precision missiles, in Lebanese territory.

The IDF announced that Shukr served as the head of Hezbollah’s strategic array, the array responsible for most of the advanced and strategic weapons: cruise missiles, coastal missiles, long-range rockets, and UAVs. He managed the organization’s force- building, developed strategies and plans, and managed the operation of strategic warfare.

According to the IDF, during the War of Iron Swords Shukar commanded Hezbollah’s fighting in the IDF.

Location: Lebanon;

Born: 15 April 1961; alt. 1962;

Place of Birth: An Nabi Shit, Ba’labakk, Biaq’ Valley, Lebanon; alt. Beirut, Lebanon;

Gender: Male;

Nationality: Lebanon;

Passport: RL2418369 (Lebanon);

Address:
1. Harat Hurayk, Lebanon;
2. Ozai, Lebanon;
3. Al-Firdaqs Building, Al-‘Arid Street, Haret Hreik, Lebanon;
4. Damascus, Syria;

Known also as: Al-Hajj Mohsin Chakar; Fouad Ali Chakar; Fu’ad Chakar.

Activities:

Fu’ad Shukr, a senior Hizballah Jihad Council member, oversaw Hizballah’s specialized weapons units in Syria, including its missile and rocket unit.

He is a senior military advisor to Hizballah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah and played a central role in the planning and execution of the October 23, 1983 U.S. Marine Corps Barracks Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed 241 U.S. service personnel.