1:38 p.m.: Hezbollah confirms that its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a strike in Beirut
11:32: In its communication, the Israeli army now mentions the elimination of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanese Hezbollah, under the code name “Operation New Order”.
10:48 a.m.: The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had “eliminated” the leader of the Lebanese armed Islamist movement, Hassan Nasrallah, in an extremely powerful strike the day before in the southern district of Beirut, the stronghold of Hezbollah. The Israeli raid destroyed dozens of buildings, forced hundreds of people to flee and left at least six dead and 91 injured.
“Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” an army spokesperson, Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, said on the social network AFP that the leader of Hezbollah had been “eliminated”. “We have not exhausted all the means at our disposal.
The message is simple: whoever threatens the citizens of Israel, we will know how to reach them,” said the Israeli chief of staff, General Herzi Halevi. “Contact is lost” with the leader of Hezbollah, at the head of the movement since 1992, indicated a source close to the movement, on condition of anonymity, without confirming his death.
In Iran, a banner was hung in Tehran on which was written: “Hezbollah is alive” with Nasrallah’s photo.
10:04 a.m.: The Israeli army announced today that it had “eliminated” Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a strike in Beirut.
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HASSAN NASRALLAH IS DEAD. pic.twitter.com/QEhCA4lyUZ
— Voice From The East (@VoiceTheEast) https://twitter.com/VoiceTheEast/status/1839937512690618735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
08:36: The head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell deplores at the UN that “no one”, not even the United States, can “stop” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his wars against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. “We are putting all diplomatic pressure on for a ceasefire. But no one seems capable of stopping Netanyahu whether in Gaza or in the West Bank,” the Palestinian territories, Josep Borrell told reporters after a Security Council meeting. devoted to the Gaza Strip ravaged by a year of conflict.
07:11: The Israeli army announced this morning that it had killed in an air attack the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon, as well as his deputy and several other leaders of the armed movement close to Iran. Israeli warplanes killed Mohammed Ali Ismail, presented as the unit’s commander, and his deputy Hossein Ahmed Ismail, the Israeli army said on Telegram. “Other Hezbollah commanders and terrorists were eliminated along with them,” she added.
05:18: The southern suburbs of Beirut, stronghold of Lebanese Hezbollah, have been targeted by intense bombings for several hours on Saturday, AFP photographers reported, with the movement’s channel reporting successive Israeli raids. The local channel al-Manar, affiliated with the pro-Iranian Islamist movement, reported “successive Zionist raids” targeting at least five neighborhoods in the southern suburbs, at a time when AFP photographers saw clouds of smoke rising. are cleared following bombings and major fires.
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04:28: Hezbollah denied during the night from Friday to Saturday Israel’s “allegations” about the presence of weapons depots in civilian buildings targeted by intensive Israeli raids in the southern suburbs of Beirut. “The Zionist enemy’s allegations about the presence of weapons or weapons depots in the targeted civilian buildings in the southern suburbs are baseless,” Hezbollah’s press office said in a statement. The national information agency (Ani, official) counted “11 Israeli raids on the southern suburbs” of Beirut during the night.
