The body of the leader of Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was found the day after the violent Israeli strike which targeted him in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
The body of the leader of Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was found this Saturday, September 28, the day after the violent Israeli strike which targeted him in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a source close to the movement told AFP on Sunday. .
“His body was found on Saturday and was placed in a shroud after a funeral wash on Sunday,” added the source who requested anonymity, specifying that the date of “the funeral ceremony and his burial have not yet been announced. not yet been determined.
Considered the most powerful man in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah was for more than 30 years the face of Hezbollah, Israel’s sworn enemy.
Israel targets Hezbollah’s heartland
The strike in which he died Friday evening also killed Ali Karaké, the commander of Hezbollah’s southern front, the Shiite movement announced on Sunday, without providing the names of the other people who were killed alongside Nasrallah.
The Israeli army claims for its part that “more than 20 other terrorists of different ranks” were also eliminated. The Lebanese authorities have announced a provisional toll of six deaths, but the total is undoubtedly much higher given the scale of the destruction.
Is there a risk of “total war” between Lebanon and Israel?
Since Monday, southern and eastern Lebanon, as well as the southern suburbs of Beirut, have been subject to intense Israeli bombardment, killing more than 700 people and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
