Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in strike on Lebanon’s capital, Israel says
Israel’s military said the leader of the Lebanese militant group had been killed in a strike on Beirut. His death has not been confirmed by Hezbollah.
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Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, is dead, Israel says.
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, is dead, Israel says.
Israel’s military announced on Saturday evening (AEST) that Nasrallah had been killed in a strike on Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, on Friday.
“Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani wrote on X.
Captain David Avraham, another military spokesman, also confirmed to the AFP news agency that the Hezbollah chief had been “eliminated” following strikes Friday on Beirut.
Plumes of smoke rise from the site of an airstrike.
Israel’s military said Hezbollah’s leader had been killed in a strike on Beirut on Friday. Source: Getty / Houssam Shbaro/ Anadolu
A source close to the Hezbollah meanwhile told AFP on condition of anonymity that contact with Nasrallah had been lost since Friday evening.
Contact with him was lost for two days and he was rumoured to have been killed during Israel’s last war with Hezbollah in 2006, the source said, adding that he later re-emerged unscathed.
There has been no official confirmation from Hezbollah about Nasrallah’s fate since the Israeli military’s announcement.
An Israeli military statement said the strikes also killed Ali Karake, who the statement identified as commander of Hezbollah’s southern front, and an unspecified number of other Hezbollah commanders.
“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 statement said.
“During Hassan Nasrallah’s 32-year reign as the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, he was responsible for the murder of many Israeli civilians and soldiers, and the planning and execution of thousands of terrorist activities,” the statement said.
“He was responsible for directing and executing terrorist attacks around the world in which civilians of various nationalities were murdered. Nasrallah was the central decision-maker and the strategic leader of the organisation.”
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