Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other Hezbollah commanders died in a targeted aerial strike on Hezbollah’s command center in Beirut on Friday.
“Hassan Nasrallah … was killed by the Israel Defense Forces in a precise strike in Beirut last night while he was in Hezbollah’s Central Headquarters commanding more imminent against the people of Israel,” IDF spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari said during a press briefing Saturday.
Hezbollah leaders confirmed Nasrallah’s death and those of several others after the IDF air strikes destroyed several high-rise apartment buildings in Beirut.
The attacks killed at least six and injured 91, Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported.
Hagari said Hezbollah was planning a major incursion into northern Israel, which Hezbollah has targeted with rocket and drone attacks since October 8.
Hagari said Hezbollah was planning an attack of Israel’s civilian population that would have been much larger and more destructive than the Oct. 7 attack carried out by Hamas.
Hezbollah’s southern front commander Ali Karki and other Hezbollah commanders who were operating from a command center that was placed under six apartment buildings in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiya also died in the air strikes.
The IDF said it deliberately chose to strike the buildings during the afternoon to minimize civilian casualties and launched additional air strikes to destroy stores of Hezbollah weapons.
The additional attacks caused an unreported number of casualties, according to the Lebanon Health Ministry.
The strikes targeting the Hezbollah commander center and Nasrallah also are likely to have higher casualty figures after the rubble is removed and more bodies are uncovered.
Also killed was Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps Gen. Abbas Nilforoushan, who the United States said was the deputy commander for IRGC operations and led “protest suppression” in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini after she had been arrested and killed while in custody in Iran.
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