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Whereas Hezbollah has not but commented, Israel says it affected the group’s management at its headquarters in southern Beirut.
The Israeli navy says it killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, though the group has not but issued a press release on his destiny.
“Hassan Nasrallah will now not have the ability to terrorize the world,” the Israeli navy stated in a press release on Saturday.
Ali Karki, the commander of Hezbollah’s southern entrance, and different Hezbollah commanders have been additionally killed within the huge airstrike within the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, the Israeli navy stated.
The Lebanese Well being Ministry stated a complete of six individuals have been killed and 91 wounded within the bombing, which leveled six condo buildings. Israeli airstrikes continued to hit Beirut’s southern suburbs and different areas of Lebanon into Saturday.
Nasrallah, 64, had led the Iran-backed group for greater than three many years, serving as a political and religious chief who guided Hezbollah to a spot of prominence in Lebanon.
“He is not only a symbolic determine, he’s a person who’s behind strategic pondering, navy pondering,” Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr stated from Beirut. “This will surely be a significant setback for the group.”
Nasrallah’s dying would imply the lack of “a significant asset within the area” for Iran, stated Al Jazeera’s Stephanie Dekker.
“The day forward is an enormous query for the area: what’s Iran going to do? Is Iran going to reply?”
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