The IDF confirmed Motzaei Shabbos that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had been eliminated in an IDF airstrike Friday afternoon. US President Joe Biden says Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader brings a “measure of justice” for his many victims.
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The IDF confirmed Motzaei Shabbos that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had been eliminated in an IDF airstrike Friday afternoon.
On Friday afternoon, at 6:20 PM Israel time, the IDF conducted a precise strike, eliminating Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi confirmed.
The strike, named “New Order” by the IDF, took place at Hezbollah’s underground headquarters in the Dahiah neighborhood of Beirut. Along with Nasrallah, other senior officials in the terrorist organization were also eliminated, including Nasrallah’s intended successor, Hashem Safi A-Din.
The IDF used 85 heavy bombs, amounting to 85 tons of explosives, to destroy and flatten the entire underground bunker of the Hezbollah command.
Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization and one of its founders, was eliminated in the attack together with Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, and additional Hezbollah commanders.
“Following precise intelligence from the IDF and Israeli security establishment, IAF fighter jets conducted a targeted strike on the Central Headquarters of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, which was located underground embedded under a residential building in the area of Dahieh in Beirut,” the IDF report said. “The strike was conducted while Hezbollah’s senior chain of command were operating from the headquarters and promoting terrorist activities against the citizens of the State of Israel.”
During Hassan Nasrallah’s 32-year reign as Secretary-General of Hezbollah, he was responsible for the murder of many Israeli civilians and soldiers, and the planning and execution of thousands of terrorist activities. He was responsible for directing and executing terrorist attacks around the world in which civilians of various nationalities were murdered. Nasrallah was the central decision-maker and the strategic leader of the organization.
The Hezbollah terrorist organization, headed by Hassan Nasrallah, joined the Hamas terrorist organization in its war against the State of Israel on October 8th. Since then, Hezbollah has been continuing its ongoing and unprovoked attacks on the citizens of the State of Israel, dragging the State of Lebanon and the entire region into a wider escalation.
The IDF stressed that it will “continue operating against anyone who promotes and engages in terrorism against the State of Israel and its people.”
US President Joe Biden says Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah brings a “measure of justice” for his many victims, while calling for diplomatic agreements to end the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza.
“Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror. His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians,” Biden says in a statement.
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