The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah confirmed this Saturday the death from his boss, Hasan Nasrallahin a Israeli bombing in the suburbs of south of Beirutstronghold of the pro-Iran group, hours after Israel announce that he had killed him.
“Sayed Hasan Nasrallah met with his fellow martyrs (…) whose march he led for almost thirty years,” the armed group announced in a statement.
Hezbollah, archenemy of Israel, officially announced the death of his bossmore than 19 hours after Israeli forces bombed their 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 was lost“with Nasrallah since Friday night. Hours before, the israeli army claimed that he had killed the leader of Hezbollah, according to his spokesperson Nadav Shoshanion the social network X.
Who was Hasan Nasrallah
Nasrallah, 64 years old, was a very powerful and recognized in Lebanon, who spent part of his life under the shadow of the Lebanese civil war.
He came to command Hezbollah in 1992replacing its predecessor Abbas Musawi after he was killed by an Israeli helicopter attack.
Nasrallah supervised the transformation of Hezbollah, which grew from a group of disorganized militants in the 1980s to a organization who mounted a concerted campaign to expel the Israeli occupation in 2000.
For years he had been living in hiding and rarely appeared in public.
According to an Israeli military statement, Ali Karake, presented as the commander of Hezbollah’s southern frontand other leaders of the movement, died alongside Nasrallah.
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Israel intensifies attacks on Lebanon
“The message is simple: we will know reach out to anyone who threatens the citizens of Israel“warned the Israeli Chief of Staff, General Herzi Halevi. The army stated that the “majority” of senior leaders of the Shia group were “eliminated” in Israeli operations in recent months.
The army released images of the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallantby Herzi Halevi and the head of the air force, Tomer Bar, gathered in a command center during the operation against Nasrallah, baptized “New order”.
Israeli forces on Monday launched a massive bombing campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, after a year of cross-border clashes with the Lebanese movement.
Hezbollah opened a front against Israel at the beginning of the war in Gazatriggered by the attack on Israel by its ally Hamas on October 7, 2023. Since then, it has promised continue “until the Israeli aggression ends in Gaza“.
For its part, Israel seeks, with its bombings, to restore security in the north of the country, the target of Hezbollah’s fire, and allow the thousands of inhabitants who had to leave the area to return.
The Iranian supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, denounced on Saturday “the narrow-mindedness” of Israeli policy, after the announcement of Nasrallah’s death, but without mentioning the leader’s name.
What they say from Hezbollah
Financed and put together by Iranthe group was created in 1982 at the initiative of the Guardians of the Revolutionthe ideological army of the Islamic Republic. “Hezbollah still has rockets and missiles and the ability to fire several simultaneously“declared military spokesman Shoshani, who estimated the arsenal still available to the movement at “tens of thousands of rockets.”
The Israeli bombardment on Friday destroyed dozens of buildings, left six dead and forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes, according to a Lebanese report. According to the Israeli army, they targeted residential properties that served as Hezbollah weapons depots. The pro-Iran movement denies this.
For its part, the Shiite movement announced rocket fire against an Israeli kibbutz and several military positions in northern Israel, but they are mostly intercepted.
The European authorities They recommended to airlines that avoid airspace of Lebanon and Israel at least “until October 31.”
Source: Ambito
