Mohammad Srour, click to see full-size image. Via X.
A Lebanese man sanctioned by the United States was found dead on April 11 after he went missing for a week, Lebanese media reported.
57-year-old Mohammad Srour, who hails from the Lebanese town of Labweh in the northern Bekaa Valley, was sanctioned by the U.S. more than four years ago for his affiliation with Lebanon’s Hezbollah and for giving “financial, material, technological support, financial or other services” to the Palestinian Hamas Movement.
The man was accused of transferring tens of millions of dollars annually from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to Hamas’ military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, which is currently at war with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Citing informed Lebanese security sources, Al Mayadeen TV, which is close to Hezbollah said that Srour, was severely tortured by agents from Israel’s national intelligence agency, the Mossad, before he was executed in the town of Beit Meri just north of the capital, Beirut.
The killers transferred the man to an apartment rented for one month located in Beit Meri to interrogate him using extreme violence, the unnamed sources said.
Srour was subjected to severe torture before he was killed, and it is strongly believed that the Israeli Mossad was behind the operation, according to the sources, which noted that the man was subjected to interrogation while he was handcuffed and the killers were in direct contact with “Tel Aviv” during the violent interrogation.
Srour was shot multiple times across his body as a form of torture, receiving more than 10 bullets, the sources added.
“It seems that martyr Srour did not confess to the Mossad members what they sought, so they executed him and left,” sources told Al Mayadeen.
According to the news channel, a large sum of money was also found on him, which has led Lebanese security forces to conclude that Srour had been subject to violent interrogation, not attempted theft.
Despite the accusations made by the U.S., Reuters reported that Srour had no formal or senior role with Hezbollah.
Last March, a top U.S. Treasury representative visited Lebanon to press officials to halt financial transfers to Hamas. A source at Lebanon’s central bank told Reuters that Lebanon had denied such transfers were taking place.
In a televised statement, Srour’s relatives said all his financial transactions were transparent and he simply worked in money exchange. They urged Lebanese security agencies to swiftly find the perpetrators.
The timing of the incident amid the war against Hamas in Gaza and the fact that the Mossad carried out such kidnappings against members of the IRGC in both Iran and Syria suggests that Israel was indeed responsible for the murder of Srour.
Hezbollah has not yet commented on the incident. The group warned Israel more than once before that it will respond to any assassinations targeting its members of allies in Lebanon.
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