Israel confirms Hezbollah leader killed in Beirut
The Israeli military said on September 28 that it had killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the militant group Hezbollah, in an airstrike in Beirut on September 27 (local time).
The country's military said it carried out an airstrike while Hezbollah's leadership was meeting at its headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut. According to France24, Mr Nasrallah has led Hezbollah for more than three decades.
Meanwhile, a source close to Hezbollah said on September 28 that they had lost contact with leader Hassan Nasrallah since the previous evening, after Israel announced that it had "eliminated" him in an attack on the southern stronghold of Beirut.
“There has been no contact with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah since Friday evening,” the source told AFP, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. He would not confirm whether Nasrallah had been killed.
Earlier in the day, Israel said its military struck dozens of what it described as Hezbollah targets on September 28 in eastern and southern Lebanon, when a surface-to-surface missile fired from Lebanon landed in an open area in central Israel.
- Massive attacks believed to have targeted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah flattened several apartment buildings and sent families fleeing in panic.
- The Israeli military said it has mobilized three reserve battalions to bolster the defenses of its Central Command amid escalating hostilities.
- Hezbollah said on September 28 it had launched a missile attack on northern Israel, the first such attack after intense Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs the night before.
- Lebanon's Health Ministry said late on Sunday that Israeli airstrikes had killed 92 people in the country and wounded 153 in the previous 24 hours. The death toll on Friday brought the total number of deaths from Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since the beginning of the week to more than 720. The figure does not include those killed in airstrikes on September 27 and 28.
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