Hezbollah has reported that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli air strike on the group’s headquarters in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. Israeli media said earlier on Saturday that Nasrallah was at the headquarters that was targeted, and Israel employed “bunker-busting” bombs.
The announcement follows a night of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. The Israeli military claimed that the massive air raid on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh on Friday killed Ali Karki, the commander of Hezbollah’s southern front, as well as other Hezbollah officers.
The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that six people were killed and 91 were injured in the bombardment, which destroyed six apartment complexes. Israeli air assaults continued to pummel Beirut’s southern suburbs and other areas of Lebanon until Saturday.
Where is Israel striking in Lebanon?
The Israeli army says it has struck more than 140 Hezbollah targets since Friday evening, including the “central headquarters of Hezbollah” that, it says, was “embedded underneath residential buildings in the area of Beirut.
On Saturday, Israel’s military said jet fighters had also attacked “dozens” of Hezbollah targets in the Bekaa Valley and various areas of southern Lebanon and the attacks are continuing.Israeli forces said they had targeted buildings where weapons were believed to be stored as well as sites from where rockets were launched into Israel