Hassan Nasrallah, who guided the year-long bombings of Israel, who did the bidding of Iran, who promised vengeance, is dead.
He was the target of Friday’s bombings by the IDF.
This from independentsentinel.com.
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:
[W]as 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].
Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli army spokesperson, said:
[T]he airstrike was based on years of tracking Nasrallah along with real time information that made it viable.
He declined to say what munitions were used in the strike or provide an estimate on civilian deaths, only saying that Israel takes measures to avoid civilians whenever possible.
Israel’s Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, said Saturday that the elimination of Nasrallah was “not the end of our toolbox,” indicating that more strikes were planned.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called it:
[T]he most important targeted strike since the founding of the State of Israel.
Israel has vowed to step up pressure on Hezbollah until it halts its attacks that have displaced tens of thousands of Israelis from communities near the Lebanese border.
According to the United Nations:
The recent fighting has also displaced more than 200,000 Lebanese in the past week.
The military said Saturday it was:
[M]obilizing additional reserve soldiers as tensions escalate with Lebanon, activating three battalions of reserve soldiers to serve across the country. It sent two brigades to northern Israel earlier in the week to train for a possible ground invasion.
Shoshani, the army spokesperson, said:
Israel has inflicted heavy damage on Hezbollah’s capabilities over the past week by targeting a combination of immediate threats and strategic weapons, such as larger, guided missiles.
Further:
[M]uch of Hezbollah’s arsenal still remains intact and Israel would continue to target the group.
The Israeli military updated guidelines for Israeli citizens, canceling gatherings of more than 1,000 people due to the ongoing threat.
Approximately 60,000 Israelis have been evacuated from their homes along the Lebanese border for almost a year. Earlier this month, Israel’s government said:
[H]alting Hezbollah’s attacks in the country’s north to allow residents to return to their homes is an official war goal.
Once upon a time, Lebanon was a peaceful, Christian country. Hezbollah came in and destroyed it. Now the IDF is destroying Hezbollah.
