Israel says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed by strike in Lebanon's capital Beirut
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Israel's military said Saturday that it had killed the overall leader of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah in an airstrike the previous day on the group's "central headquarters" in Beirut, Lebanon. The Friday afternoon strike was the latest in a series of massive explosions targeting leaders of the militant group, which has been firing rockets and drones across Lebanon's southern border into Israel for almost a year.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a Saturday statement that Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, "was eliminated by the IDF, together with Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah's Southern Front, and additional Hezbollah commanders" in a strike by Israeli fighter jets on the group's command facility "embedded under a residential building" in Beirut's southern suburbs, which have long been a stronghold of the U.S.-designated terrorist group.
"The strike was conducted while Hezbollah's senior chain of command were operating from the headquarters and advancing terrorist activities against the citizens of the State of Israel," the IDF said.
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