On Sunday, Hezbollah categorically denied a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report about Israel’s killing of its commander-in-chief Fuad Shukr.

In a statement, Hezbollah’s press office said the WSJ article was full of lies and had no basis in fact. It stressed that none of the three journalists who, according to the newspaper, wrote the article had ever met a Hezbollah official.

“The narrative, which is essentially false and attributed to a false source, exists only in the imagination of the authors and serves nothing more than propaganda for the Zionist enemy. The newspapers mentioned, as well as numerous Lebanese and Arab media, are accustomed to publishing such false narratives without checking or verifying them, as they base their positions on such claims and try to serve the Zionist plan,” Hezbollah said.

Sunday’s WSJ article, titled “How Israel Killed a Ghost,” claims that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency hacked Hezbollah’s communications network and used the phone call to track down and kill Shukr.

Salem Zahran, director of the media center, commenting on the article, refuted the WSJ’s allegations, saying that Hezbollah does not operate in this way.

He stressed that, contrary to reports, Shukr was never on the seventh floor during the attack in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district.