Lebanese group Hezbollah confirmed that its chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Friday’s Israeli airstrikes on Beirut.
“Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, has joined his great, immortal martyr comrades whom he led for about 30 years,” Hezbollah mentioned in an announcement.
Earlier on Saturday, the Israeli military claimed the “liquidation” of Nasrallah in a latest airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb.
In an announcement on X, Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee mentioned Nasrallah was ‘liquidated’ throughout an operation focusing on the central command of Hezbollah situated beneath a residential constructing within the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Adraee defined the airstrike was performed with “precise intelligence from the military’s intelligence agency,” focusing on a location the place Hezbollah’s management was reportedly coordinating assaults towards Israel.
He added that the operation additionally resulted within the deaths of Ali Karki, the chief of Hezbollah’s southern entrance, and several other different Hezbollah commanders.
Israel has pounded Lebanon since early Monday with strikes which have killed greater than 700 victims and injured almost 2,200, in response to figures launched by the Lebanese Health Ministry.
The ministry additionally mentioned that the dying toll in Lebanon since final October is 1,540, along with the greater than 77,000 displaced from the southern and jap elements of the nation.
Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in cross-border warfare because the begin of Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip, which has killed greater than 41,500 victims, largely ladies and youngsters, following a cross-border assault by Hamas final Oct. 7.
The worldwide neighborhood has warned towards the strikes on Lebanon, as they increase the specter of turning the Gaza battle right into a regional struggle.
Source: www.dailysabah.com