Tlaib notably did not release any statements condemning the initial Hezbollah strike on Majdal Shams.
US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) lambasted Israeli officials as “genocidal” for targeting a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, despite remaining silent just days earlier when Hezbollah killed 12 children in a rocket attack on northern Israel.
“This is exactly what the genocidal maniac [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and the majority of Israeli officials want,” Tlaib wrote on social media. “They want a full-blown regional war, and guess what? It will be American dollars funding this expansion of genocidal war. We must stop this madness now. More innocent lives will be killed.”
Tlaib was referring to Israel killing Fuad Shukr, the senior Hezbollah commander, with an air strike in Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday. At the time of his death, Shukr was wanted by the US government for his connection to the 1983 suicide bombing of the US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut. The terrorist attack took the lives of 241 US military personnel.