Hezbollah confirms leader Hassan Nasrallah’s passing following Israeli attacks on Beirut
Israel will celebrate Nasrallah’s passing as a major victory.
Hasan Nasrallah’s death will be hailed as a great victory in Israel.
He has been the beating heart of Hezbollah for almost thirty years. Hezbollah became a fighting force in 2000, forcing Israel to halt its two-decade occupation of south Lebanon, with to the support of his close allies in Iran.
Hezbollah was led by him to an impasse with Israel in 2006.
Only Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas attack on Israel in October of last year, has come close to overtaking Nasrallah as Israel’s most formidable adversary in recent years.
After nearly a year of an attritional border conflict, Israel has taken the fight to Hezbollah against the objections of its American partners.
Israel has been developing a war strategy since the conclusion of its previous conflict with Hezbollah in 2006, and it has just brought it to life.
Israel has severely damaged its adversary in Lebanon. The greatest blow of all is the death of its leader.
The question at hand is how Iran and Hezbollah will react. They may now be coming to the conclusion that they will lose strategically if they don’t respond forcefully.
The US and Israel’s western allies attempted to convince Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire in order to provide a diplomatic pause because of the unpredictability and danger in the Middle East.
Eight important details to be aware of as Hezbollah confirms Nasrallah’s demise were released at 13:10 British Summer Time (BST).
The death of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has just been announced. The following are a few more noteworthy events from the previous few hours:
Israel launched several airstrikes on Beirut on Friday, and there were rumors that Nasrallah was one of the targets.
Israeli aircraft raids on Lebanon persisted into today morning, as reported by our journalist in Beirut, who saw smoke billowing over the southern suburbs of the capital.
Additionally, Hezbollah has reported shooting rockets into Israel today; the IDF has acknowledged identifying and intercepting some of these missiles.
In the meantime, we learned this morning that residents from Beirut’s southern suburbs were forcibly relocated and were sleeping on the streets or in their cars.
Nasrallah and other senior Hezbollah members were slain by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in a raid on the organization’s Dahieh headquarters at approximately 9:00 BST.
Since then, the faction backed by Iran has confirmed Nasrallah’s death.
In a statement, Hezbollah calls Nasrallah a martyr and vows to keep up the struggle against Israel.
Separately, the EU advised airlines to stay out of Israeli and Lebanese airspace for the next month, and Lebanon’s transport ministry instructed an Iranian aircraft not to fly over Israel.