The Israeli army announced this Saturday that it had “eliminated” the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike the day before on the HQ of the organization in Beirut.
“Hassan Nasrallah died,” a spokesman for the Israeli army on social network X said another army spokesman, confirmed to AFP that Hezbollah chief had been “eliminated”. After massively bombing the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Friday, Israel did this announced this morning.
The Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut was targeted in an Israeli strike this Friday, September 27. According to Israeli media, Hassan Nasrallah was the target.
Early this morning, the Israeli army continued to intensely pound the southern suburbs of the city, bastion of Hezbollah. Several leaders of the movement would have been killed.
For its part, Hezbollah announced this Saturday that it had pulled rockets in northern Israel, the first attack after the Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut during the night.
Hezbollah, without confirming the death of its leader, admitted that “contact” was “lost”. According to a provisional assessment of the Lebanese authorities, the Israeli attack left six dead, 91 injured and destroyed dozens of buildings.