Israel announces it has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

“Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” said Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani, Israeli army spokesperson for the foreign press, Saturday September 28 on the social network David Avraham confirmed that the Hezbollah leader had been “eliminated”.

Hezbollah has not yet confirmed or denied the Israeli announcement. A source close to the Lebanese group declared, on condition of anonymity, that contact with Hassan Nasrallah had been lost on the evening of Friday, September 27, after the Israeli strike on the movement’s HQ in its stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut. . In 2006, during During the last war between Israel and Hezbollah, the movement’s leader disappeared for two days and there were rumors of his death before he reappeared, the source added.

Israeli army chief of staff General Herzi Halevi promised in a statement to “achieve” all person threatening Israel. “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,” he said. According to an Israeli army statement, Friday’s bombing in Beirut also caused the death of Ali Karaké, identified as the commandant of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, as well as other commanders of the movement.

“The strategic leader”

“During his 32-year rule as Hezbollah Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah was responsible for the murder of numerous Israeli civilians and soldiers, as well as the planning and execution of thousands of terrorist activities,” he said. added the army in a press release. “He was responsible for directing and executing terrorist attacks around the world, during which civilians of various nationalities were murdered. Nasrallah was the main decision-maker and strategic leader of the organization,” the army continued.

Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel after the start of the war, on October 7, in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and the Israeli army, distantly acting in support of the Palestinian movement, its ally. On Saturday, the Israeli army said it had carried out “major strikes” on “dozens of Hezbollah targets” in the sud and eastern Lebanon. She earlier claimed to have killed the commander of a missile unit of the movement and his deputy in a strike in southern Lebanon.

Israel also announced that its aircraft had flown over the area around Beirut airport during the night, saying it wanted to prevent Iran to land shipments of weapons intended for Hezbollah. Israeli operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon will continue “until all our objectives are achieved”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN, dashing hopes of a truce proposed by Paris and Washington.

Since Monday, the bombings Israeli left more than 700 dead, the majority civilians according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. In one year, the number of people killed rises to more than 1,500, a death toll higher than that of the 33 days of war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.

(with AFP)