The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah confirmed this Saturday the death of its leader, Hasan Nasrallah, in an Israeli bombing that took place on Friday in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of the pro-Iran group.
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“Sayed Hasan Nasrallah met with his fellow martyrs (…) whose march he led for almost thirty years,” the armed group announced in a statement.
Hezbollah, Israel’s archenemy, officially announced the death of its leader, more than 19 hours after Israeli forces bombed its headquarters in a densely populated neighborhood on the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital.
A source close to the pro-Iran movement had previously stated that contact with Nasrallah had been lost since Friday night. Hours earlier, the Israeli army claimed it had killed the leader of Hezbollah.
“Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” declared an Israeli army spokesman, Nadav Shoshani, on the social network X.
Hasan Nasrallah, 64 years old, was a very powerful and revered man in Lebanon. Leader of Hezbollah since 1994, he had lived in hiding for years and rarely appeared in public.
“The message is simple: we will know how to reach anyone who threatens the citizens of Israel,” warned the chief of the Israeli General Staff, General Herzi Halevi.
According to an Israeli military statement, Ali Karake, presented as the commander of Hezbollah’s southern front, and other leaders of the movement, died alongside Nasrallah.
The army then stated that the “majority” of the Shiite group’s senior leaders were “eliminated” in Israeli operations in recent months.
Israeli military says Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah dead
The Israeli Army announced this Saturday that the head of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed on Friday in an Israeli bombardment against the movement’s headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
“Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” the military spokesperson for the international press, Nadav Shoshani, announced in X, after a night of speculation after the Shiite leader showed no signs of life.
In a more detailed military statement, the Army confirmed the death of Nasrallah along with other Hezbollah commanders, including Ali Karki, commander of the Shiite group’s Southern Front, who were in the organization’s underground headquarters in the suburbs. south in Beirut known as the Dahye, when it was bombed.
Hezbollah confirms the death of its top leader
The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah confirmed this Saturday the death of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
“His Eminence Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, joined his great and immortal martyrs,” the group announced in a statement, which did not mention the circumstances of his death.
Hamas calls assassination of Hezbollah chief a ‘cowardly terrorist act’
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas denounced this Saturday a “cowardly terrorist act” by Israel, following the death of the head of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli bombing near Beirut on Friday.
“We firmly condemn this savage Zionist aggression and the attack on residential buildings (…) We consider this a cowardly terrorist act,” Hamas, an ally of Hezbollah, said in a statement.
Israeli Army affirms that, with the assassination of the head of Hezbollah, the ‘world is a safer place’
The Israeli army affirmed this Saturday that the elimination of the head of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, makes the world “a safer place”, and insisted that it will continue killing other commanders of the armed Islamist movement.
“Nasrallah was one of the greatest enemies of all time of the State of Israel (…). His elimination makes the world a safer place,” declared army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari during a conference televised press.
Iran affirms that the path of the Hezbollah chief ‘will continue’ despite his death
Iran said Saturday that “the path of Hassan Nasrallah will continue” despite his death in an Israeli bombing of Hezbollah’s headquarters on the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
“The glorious path of the resistance leader, Hassan Nasrallah, will continue and his sacred goal will be realized with the liberation of Quds (Jerusalem), God willing,” declared Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Naser Kanani in a message on social network X.
By killing Nasrallah, Israel crossed ‘all red lines’: Iraq PM
The Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohamed Shia al Sudani, condemned this Saturday the death of the head of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli bombing south of Beirut and described it as a “crime.”
Friday’s bombing of a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut was a “shameful attack” and “a crime that shows that the Zionist entity crossed all red lines,” Al Sudani said in a statement, calling Nasrallah of “martyr in the path of the just.”
*With AFP and Efe
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