Israel’s military said Saturday that it killed Hassan Nasrallah, the overall leader of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, in an airstrike the previous day on the group’s “central headquarters” in Beirut, Lebanon. The militant group confirmed Nasrallah’s death, saying its longtime leader “has joined his fellow martyrs.”
On Friday afternoon, there was another big attack aimed at the leaders of a militant group. This group has been launching rockets and drones from Lebanon into Israel for nearly a year. This strike was one in a line of several large attacks targeting these leaders.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a Saturday statement that Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, “was eliminated by the IDF, together with Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, and additional Hezbollah commanders” in a strike by Israeli fighter jets on the group’s command facility “embedded under a residential building” in Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have long been a stronghold of the U.S.-designated terrorist group.
“The strike was conducted while Hezbollah’s senior chain of command were operating from the headquarters and advancing terrorist activities against the citizens of the State of Israel,” the IDF said.
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Hezbollah said in its statement that it vows to “continue the holy war against the enemy and in support of Palestine.”
An Israeli military official mentioned on Saturday that they got immediate information which let them perform the attack right when they had the chance.
