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Israeli army announces killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

 

Hezbollah, which usually announces the death of its commanders during the day, had still not made an official announcement more than 15 hours after this raid on the fate of its leader.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli attack on Beirut on Friday, the Israeli military said.

“Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world,” the Israeli army wrote on the social network X.

Israel carried out a devastating raid on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday, destroying dozens of buildings, forcing hundreds of people to flee and killing at least six people. Hezbollah, which usually announces the death of its commanders during the day, had still not made an official announcement more than 15 hours after this raid on the fate of its leader.

Israeli forces are "conducting targeted strikes on weapons belonging" to Hezbollah "that were stored under civilian buildings in the (area of ​​the southern suburbs of) Beirut," a stronghold of the Lebanese Islamist movement, a military statement said.

The IDF called on residents of several locations in the area to evacuate "immediately," hours after saying it had struck the "headquarters" of the Lebanese Islamist movement there.

Hezbollah denied the presence of weapons depots in the targeted buildings: "The allegations of the Zionist enemy about the presence of weapons or weapons depots in the targeted civilian buildings in the southern suburbs are baseless," the movement's press office said in a statement.

The National News Agency (ANI, official) counted "eleven Israeli raids on the southern suburbs" of Beirut during the night.

Josep Borell at the UN: “No one seems capable of stopping Netanyahu”

“We are heading towards a long war,” predicted Mr Borrell, who at 77 will retire at the end of the year. On Monday, the Spanish diplomat, in unison with world leaders, warned that Lebanon was “on the brink of total war”.

“We are putting all the diplomatic pressure for a ceasefire. But no one seems capable of stopping Netanyahu, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank,” the Palestinian territories, Borrell told reporters after a Security Council meeting on the Gaza Strip, which has been ravaged by a year of conflict.

The Israeli prime minister, speaking at the UN General Assembly on Friday, threatened Iran with “strikes” if his country was attacked and promised to continue hitting the Palestinian Hamas in Gaza and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah in Lebanon until victory.

"Hamas must go," he then said, calling on the Palestinian Islamist group "to lay down its arms" in the Gaza Strip to end the war.

“This war can end. All Hamas has to do is surrender, lay down its arms and release the hostages,” he said. “If they (Hamas fighters) don’t, if they don’t, we will fight until we achieve victory, total victory. There is no alternative,” he warned.

The Israeli prime minister indicated that operations against Lebanon’s Hezbollah would continue, dashing hopes for a temporary 21-day truce proposed earlier this week by France and the United States.