Airstrike on Dahieh, Southern Beirut, Lebanon
The Israeli military announced on the 28th (local time) that it had eliminated Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Leader of Hezbollah, the Islamic Shia armed faction in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah [Photo by Yonhap News]
According to foreign media including AP, the Israeli military stated that it carried out a precision airstrike on the Dahieh area in southern Beirut, Lebanon, where a Hezbollah command meeting was held the previous day. They added that some members of the command, including Ali Karki, the commander of Hezbollah's southern front, were also killed in the strike.
An anonymous Hezbollah source told AFP that contact with Nasrallah had been lost since the evening of the previous day. Nasrallah has led Hezbollah for 32 years since 1992.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that six people were killed and 91 injured in the airstrike.
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