Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, was killed according to the Israeli army.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed Friday in an Israeli attack on Beirut, the Israeli army says. Hassan Nasrallah died in a strike on the organization’s headquarters in Beirut, an army spokesperson added. “Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world”wrote the Hebrew State Army on the social network
“Hassan Nasrallah is dead”, said an army spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani, on the same social network. Another army spokesman, Captain David Avraham, confirmed that the Hezbollah leader had been “eliminated“.
Israel carried out a devastating raid on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday, which destroyed dozens of buildings, forced hundreds of people to flee and left at least six dead. Hezbollah, which usually announces the death of its commanders during the day, had still not made an official announcement more than 15 hours after this raid on the fate of its leader. A source close to the movement announced on Saturday that contact with Nasrallah had been lost since Friday evening.
Hassan Nasrallah, 64, is a man of religion who is the subject of a veritable cult of personality in Lebanon, where he is the most powerful man. For years he has lived in hiding and has rarely appeared in public. According to several Israeli television channels, Hassan Nasrallah was targeted by the unprecedentedly violent strike that occurred on Friday at 5:30 p.m. (Belgian time) in a densely populated neighborhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Despite the blows dealt by Israel, which constantly bombs Hezbollah strongholds in the south and east of Lebanon as well as in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese movement announced on Saturday that it had fired rockets against a kibbutz and military targets in northern Israel responds “to the barbaric attacks of the Israeli enemy”.
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