BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Hezbollah group confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founding members, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut.
Associated PressBEIRUT — Lebanon's Hezbollah group confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founding members, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut.
The Israeli military said it carried out a precise airstrike on Friday while Hezbollah leaders were meeting at their headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut. In his first public remarks since the killing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's targeting of Nasrallah was"an essential condition to achieving the goals we set."Netanyahu said Nasrallah's killing would help bring displaced Israelis back to their homes in the north and would pressure Hamas to free Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
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. The recent fighting has also displaced more than 200,000 Lebanese in the past week, according to the United Nations. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Tehran, waving Hezbollah flags and chanting"Death to Israel" and"Death to Netanyahu the murderer."
Thomas Juneau, a professor at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, said Iran will be under significant pressure to respond to Nasrallah's killing without escalating violence in the region.
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