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Earlier in the day, an Israeli airstrike killed a family of nine in a Lebanese border village, authorities said, as Lebanon struggled to deal with a rising death toll, a wave of tens of thousands fleeing their homes and the possibility of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Netanyahu said at the UN that he would degrade Hezbollah until Israel achieved its goals. His comments were not in line with hopes for a 21-day cease fire between Israel and Hezbollah. Hezbollah has not responded to the proposal.
At the U.N., Netanyahu vowed to “continue degrading Hezbollah” until Israel achieves its goals, further dimming hopes for an internationally backed cease-fire.
Lebanon is currently worried about a war like the one in 2006 which left a lot of damage over the country. Or worse, they fear, Lebanon could suffer devastation on the scale caused in Gaza by Israel’s nearly yearlong campaign against Hamas.
At least 25 people were killed in Israeli strikes early Friday, Health Minister Firass Abiad said, bringing the death toll in Lebanon this week to more than 720. He said that the dead included many women and children.
But in Lebanon and across the region, Nasrallah has had many admirers. The International Institute of Strategic Studies estimated in a 2020 report that Hezbollah had up to 20,000 active fighters. They think he stood up to Israel and the West for the sake of the Middle East.
Before co-founding Hezbollah, Nasrallah learned the ropes in the Amal movement, a Shiite political and paramilitary movement. He was chosen to be Hezbollah’s chief two days after its leader, Sayyed Abbas Musawi, was killed by the Israeli military in 1992.
Analysts in the MidEast had speculated that Nasrallah had left Lebanon after the pager explosions and that the United States would come up with an initiative that would lead to more violence in the country.
In a statement released by the group, it said that Nasrallah “has joined his fellow martyrs.” The official Iranian news agency reported on Saturday that a commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards was also killed alongside Nasrallah.
The announcement Saturday of Hezbollah’s leader added that the group’s senior military commander for the region close to Lebanon’s border with Israel was also killed. This would effectively mean much of Hezbollah’s command structure had been taken out by Israeli attacks in the past two months, as tit-for-tat rocket, artillery, tank and aircraft missiles continued across the border.
The scope of Israel’s operation remains unclear, but officials have said a ground invasion to push the militant group away from the border is a possibility. Thousands of troops were moved towards the border.
85,000 people are currently residing in public schools and other shelters because of the fighting, according to the United Nations. Airstrikes have forced 20 primary health care centers to shut down and disrupted access to clean water for nearly 300,000 people.
Israel strikes Hezbollah in blast targeting the militant group’s leader: AFP photo from Haret Hreik, Lebanon
The main Hezbollah headquarters was the target of the Israeli strikes.
Israel didn’t comment on the type or amount of bomb used, but the explosion leveled an area greater than a city block. The Israeli army has in its arsenal 2,000-pound, American-made “Bunker Buster” guided bombs designed specifically for hitting subterranean targets.
Footage showed rescue workers clambering over large slabs of concrete, surrounded by high piles of twisted metal and wreckage. Several craters were visible, one with a car toppled into it. A group of residents were seen running away from the district along a main road.
The series of blasts at around nightfall reduced six apartment towers to rubble in Haret Hreik, a densely populated, predominantly Shiite district of Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburbs, according to Lebanon’s national news agency. A wall of billowing black and orange smoke rose into the sky as windows were rattled and houses shaken some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Beirut.
The news of the blasts came as Netanyahu was speaking to the UN. Netanyahu stopped the briefing when a military aide whispered into his ear.
The blast that killed six people killed in Lebanon’s southern suburbs – the first fatal explosion of the civil society in a century since Israel
The death toll is likely to rise significantly as teams comb through the rubble of six buildings. The southern suburbs were struck after the initial blast.
At least six people were killed and 91 were wounded, Lebanon’s health ministry said. It was the biggest explosion to hit Lebanon’s capital in a year and was likely to push the conflict closer to war.
The crowd of people wore yellow flags and waved their fists in the air as they walked behind the coffins.
The officials and their supporters of Hezbollah are still defiant. The funeral of three Hezbollah members killed in earlier strikes was held in another part of Lebanon’s suburb, where thousands were present.
In the southern Lebanon city of Tyre, civil defense workers pulled the corpses of two women from the rubble of a building that had been hit by a strike.
An Israeli security official said he expects the campaign against Hezbollah would not last for as long as the current war in Gaza, because the military’s goals are much narrower.
Loud music booms across Tel Aviv as people celebrate the death of Nasrallah after the Israeli military wrote on a social media platform that he wouldn’t be able toterrorize the world.
During the 32 years that Nasrallah led a group that several nations, including the United States, have labeled a terrorist organization, he rarely made public appearances.
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Israel’s top military commander, Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, issued a video statement Saturday, in which he said the unprecedented strikes Friday that had targeted Hezbollah’s leadership was “not the end” for what he termed Israel’s “toolbox.’
Amer Al Sabaileh, a Jordanian security expert and close observer of Hezbollah, said the fact Nasrallah was willing to take the high risk to his life of gathering with other Hezbollah commanders amid Israel’s campaign indicates the group was in crisis after two weeks of crippling Israeli attacks.
“The level of shock among Hezbollah cannot be measured,” Al Sabaileh said. “Simply, they never expected that Israel would initiate and would continue, and does not stop attacking Hezbollah.”
And the regional consequences could be significant too, according to Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the British think tank Chatham House.
Iran’s so-called axis of resistance includes Hezbollah, Hamas and many other militant groups, which is one of the reasons why Iran will be looking for some way to turn the tables. The axis has failed to provide Iran with deterrence against Israel or the Gaza cease-fire.
But Orna Mizrahi, an Israeli security expert from the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said Israel’s successes in degrading Hezbollah’s leadership structure and military capabilities could be leveraged to reach a lasting agreement that would force Hezbollah forces back from Lebanon’s border with northern Israel.
Nick Blanford, a long-time senior fellow with the Atlantic Council, suggests that Hezbollah’s succession plans and process should follow a plan that helped him ascend to the position he is in today.
The Hezbollah blow will be massive, but it should be a reprise of what happened in the ’90’s. The Shura Council is sitting down to choose someone else.