New Delhi: Israel has killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike in Beirut.
After a series of pager and radio attacks across Lebanon, Israel has conducted sweeping air raids in its neighbouring country – killing over 1,000 people in under five days. Lebanon’s health ministry, which has given the ‘1000’ figure, notes that more than 6,000 have been injured. Many of those killed are women and children.
Other reports note that the bombing has killed more than 700 people.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Nasrallah was not a terrorist, he was the terrorist.”
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has said this killing “not go unavenged”.
“The foundation that Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah established in Lebanon and the direction he provided to other centers of Resistance will not be destroyed as a result of his martyrdom, but rather it will also be strengthened due to his sacrifice and that of the other martyrs,” he wrote in a series of posts on X, in which he also announced five days of mourning.
Sources told Reuters that Khamenei had been moved to a secure location in Iran following Nasrallah’s killing.
After having conducted strikes on Gaza for a year now, in what many including the ICJ have labelled a genocide, Israel’s move to take the war to Lebanon have sparked global concern over a war in West Asia.
Half a million have already been displaced in Lebanon.
