The Israel Defense Forces announced early Saturday (US time) that Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Islamist terrorist group Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday on the Hezbollah Central Command bunker headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon.
“Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” IDF spokesman Nadav Shoshani wrote on Twitter.
Hassan Nasrallah passed away.
— LTC Nadav Shoshani (@LTC_Shoshani) September 28, 2024
Minutes earlier, the IDF posted: “Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world.”
Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 28, 2024
The Israeli government subsequently released the positions and diagrams of Hezbollah’s chain of command that had been eliminated in Israel’s defensive actions in recent weeks. “Israel’s @IDF confirmed that Hassan Nasrallah, one of the leaders and founders of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, was removed yesterday,” Hezbollah Southern Front Commander Ali Karki, and Additional Hezbollah Commander With et al. Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world. ”
Israeli @IDF Hassan Nasrallah, the leader and one of the founders of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, was confirmed yesterday to be eliminated, along with Hezbollah Southern Front Commander Ali Karki and additional Hezbollah commanders.
Nasrallah will reject it… pic.twitter.com/aThduf0bwe
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) September 28, 2024
Al Arabiya English posted a video of the massive airstrike.
Lebanese state media reported on Friday that Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on the southern outskirts of Beirut, and loud explosions were heard in the capital.
read more: https://t.co/yWS7w3x5xX pic.twitter.com/q3VDHhwGQS
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) September 27, 2024
Excerpt from Wikipedia page For Nasrallah:
Hassan Nasrallah (Arabic: حسن نصر الله) [ħasan nasˤrɑɫɫɑh]; born August 31, 1960 – September 28, 2024) is a Lebanese cleric and former secretary general of Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim political party and extremist organization.
Born in 1960 into a Shiite family on the outskirts of Beirut, Nasrallah completed his education in Tire, briefly joined the Amal movement, and then studied at the Shiite seminary in Baalbek. He then studied and taught at Amal’s school. Nasrallah joined Hezbollah, which was formed to fight Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. After briefly studying religious studies in Iran, Nasrallah returned to Lebanon and became the leader of Hezbollah after his predecessor was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in 1992.[1][2]
Under Nasrallah’s leadership, Hezbollah acquired long-range rockets that enabled it to attack northern Israel. Israel withdrew its troops in 2000 after inflicting heavy casualties during its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon, which greatly increased Hezbollah’s popularity in the region and weakened its position within Lebanon. has been strengthened. However, Hezbollah’s role in ambushing Israeli border patrol forces in the lead-up to the 2006 Lebanon War came under local and regional criticism. During the Syrian civil war, Hezbollah fought alongside the Syrian army against what Nasrallah called “Islamic extremists.”
A video posted Friday night local time showed Arabs and Muslims from Middle Eastern countries celebrating Nasrallah’s death.
In the Syrian city of Azaz, which is not under the control of Assad’s forces, they are distributing sweets without waiting for an official announcement about Nasrallah’s removal…a real celebration. pic.twitter.com/iMeMhf7moe
— Joni Job (@jj_talking) September 27, 2024
Crowds in Tripoli, Lebanon gather to celebrate the (unconfirmed) death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah pic.twitter.com/uxgq3pvT2z
— لبنيني (@Hanniba3il) September 27, 2024
Lebanese people are joyfully celebrating the death of tyrant Hassan Nasrallah.
This victory was hard won –
Let’s keep the festivities going all night long #Hezbollah #Nasrallah #Beirut #Lebanon #Attack on Lebanon pic.twitter.com/lUyXxfmeiO— Sangita Singh ️ (@sangitajadon95) September 28, 2024
