Hezbollah’s top leader was killed
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Israel intensified its strikes inLebanon this week, saying it was determined to end Hezbollah fire into its territory. According to Health Ministry statistics, over 700 people have been killed in Lebanon due to the campaign. A strike in the predawn hours killed nine members of the same family in Chebaa, the state news agency said.
Four hours after the strike, Hezbollah had still not issued any statement referring to it. Instead, it announced that it had launched a missile at the Israeli city of Safed, which it said was in response to the Israeli violations of cities, villages and civilians.
Netanyahu told the UN that he would continue degrading Hezbollah until it achieved Israel’s goals.
The last war between Israel and Hezbollah happened in 2006 and wreaked havoc in parts of the country. Or worse, they fear, Lebanon could suffer devastation on the scale caused in Gaza by Israel’s nearly yearlong campaign against Hamas.
The Lebanese health ministry announced late Friday that six people had died and more than 90 had been injured by the strikes, but authorities said they were still clearing vast quantities of rubble, meaning those numbers would likely rise.
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Hezbollah became one of the most powerful militias in the Middle East thanks to Nasrallahs leadership, and its military force is stronger than the army in Lebanon. Funded by Iran, Hezbollah trained troops from Hamas. His organization also provides social services.
Nasrallah, the leader of the Iranian-backed militia, was born to an impoverished family in the north of Lebanon. He was the eldest of nine children and studied theology in Iran in 1989.
Nasrallah led his group into a war that pushed Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon in 2000, ending an 18-year occupation. The U.S.Designated Hezbollah a terrorist group in 1997, the same year his son died fighting with the Israeli army.
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.
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 the operation remains unclear but officials say a ground invasion might be needed to push the group away from the border. Israel moved thousands of troops toward the border in preparation.
The United Nations said the fighting has displaced 211,000 people, including 85,000 now staying in public schools and other shelters. The air strikes have forced 20 primary health care centers to shut down and disrupted access to clean water for more than 300,000 people.
“Israel strikes Hezbollah in blast targeting the militant group’s leader,” Israel told reporters after the UN summit in Dahiyeh
Israeli army spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the strikes targeted the main Hezbollah headquarters, saying it was located underground beneath residential buildings.
Israel provided no immediate comment about the type of bomb or how many it used, but the resulting explosion levelled 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. One of the craters was caused when a car fell into it. A stream of residents carrying their belongings were seen fleeing along a main road out of the district.
The Haret Hreik area of Dahiyeh was reduced to rubble after a series of blasts at around nightfall. A wall of black and orange smoke rose into the sky with windows rattled and houses shook 30 kilometers north of Beirut.
Netanyahu was talking to reporters after the UN address and he heard of the blasts. A military aide whispered into his ear, and Netanyahu quickly ended the briefing.
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The death toll is likely to rise significantly as teams comb through the rubble of six buildings. Israel launched a series of strikes on other areas of the southern suburbs following the initial blast.
Lebanon’s health ministry said at least 6 people were killed and more than 80 were wounded. It was the biggest blast to hit the Lebanese capital in the past year and appeared likely to push the escalating conflict closer to full-fledged war.
People in the giant crowd waved their fists in the air and chanted, “We will never accept humiliation” as they marched behind the three coffins.
Hezbollah officials and their supporters are on top of the world. Not long before the explosions Friday evening, thousands gathered in another part of Beirut’s suburbs for the funeral of three Hezbollah members killed in earlier strikes, including the head of the group’s drone unit, Mohammed Surour.
In the southern Lebanon city of Tyre, civil defense workers extricated the bodies of a mother and daughter from the rubble of a building that had been struck.
The official told me that the goal in Lebanon is to push Hezbollah away from the border, and that it was not a high bar like Gaza.
Loud music rang out in Tel Aviv in celebration of Nasrallah’s death after the Israeli military wrote on X that he would no longer be able to terrorise the world.
Nasrallah only very rarely made public appearances during his 32-year tenure atop a group that several nations, including the United States, have labeled a terrorist organization.
A response to Israel’s “toolbox” of unprovoked forces outlined by Halevi in a video statement describing the “successful strikes” against Hezbollah
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.’