The death of the leader of the Lebanese Islamist movement has not been confirmed by Hezbollah, which also lost several commanders in the Israeli bombings.
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Israel announced on Saturday September 28 in a press release that it had “eliminated” Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a strike Friday on the southern suburbs of Beirut. “Hassan Nasrallah is dead”, declared an army spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Nadav Shoshani, on the social network X. A death which has not been confirmed by the Lebanese Islamist movement.
“On the basis of precise information”, “fighter planes” of the Israeli army “carried out a targeted strike on the headquarters of the Hezbollah terrorist organization (…) located under a residential building in the Dahieh district of Beirut”, specifies the Israeli army in a press release.
Hassan Nasrallah, 64, is a man of religion who is the subject of a veritable cult of personality in Lebanon, where he was the most powerful man. For years, the leader of the Lebanese movement had lived in hiding and rarely appeared in public. According to several Israeli television channels, Hassan Nasrallah was targeted by the unprecedentedly violent strike that occurred Friday afternoon in a densely populated neighborhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The Israeli raid destroyed dozens of buildings, forced hundreds of people to flee and left at least six dead.
The Israeli army also announced the death ofAli Karki, the commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, in this strike. During the night from Friday to Saturday, she also claimed to have killed several Hezbollah commanders in a strike in southern Lebanon.