It is believed that the head of Hezbollah was Hassan Nasrallah. Killed in IDF airstrikes. Friday at the Iranian-backed organization’s main headquarters in Beirut, according to unnamed Israeli officials.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly authorized the strike before addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York. “It’s hard to believe. [Nasrallah] He got out alive,” an Israeli official told the Jerusalem PostHe added that the Hezbollah leader was one of the targets of the IDF’s deadly airstrikes on Friday.

Nasrallah’s daughter also died?

Mass airstrikes rocked the Lebanese capital on Friday, sending thick clouds of smoke over the city. More than 700 people have been killed in attacks over the past week, officials said. It is the biggest attack on Beirut in the nearly year-long conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. The Times of Israel Reported

There were also reports of the death of Nasrallah’s daughter Zeinab Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike in South Beirut. Israeli news channel Channel 12 reported his death, but there was no official confirmation from Hezbollah or Lebanese authorities. If confirmed, Death of Zainab This could have important symbolic implications for Hezbollah and affect the group’s response to the ongoing conflict with Israel.

After the Beirut strike, IDF spokesman R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari said he was checking Nasrallah’s status and would update soon. “We used a highly accurate strike to target Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was holed up in civilian buildings in Beirut’s Dahiya neighborhood.” When asked if other people were killed, he said, “Once we complete the investigation, we will let you know the details.”

Iran’s emergency meeting and its ‘red lines’

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei convened an emergency meeting of the country’s Supreme National Security Council at his residence on Friday. New York Timess reported, citing two Iranian officials with knowledge of the meeting. President Masoud Pizishkian also condemned the attacks, calling them “an outright war crime” that “revealed the state terror nature of this regime.”

Ali Larijani, an adviser to Khamenei, said Israel was “crossing Tehran’s red lines, and the situation is getting serious.” “Killing will not solve Israel’s problem…by killing resistance leaders, others will replace them,” Larijani told Iranian state TV, citing Nasrallah’s death. Amidst speculation to go. “The resistance has strong commanders and cadres, and every commander who is martyred will be replaced,” he said.

Hezbollah commanders were killed.

The attack on Nasrallah came as the IDF stepped up its attacks on Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy group that has repeatedly targeted Israel. For the past year, the IDF and Hezbollah have been involved in a limited cross-border conflict, which runs parallel to the war in Gaza.

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In another update, the Israeli military said on Saturday it had killed the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon, along with his deputy and several other leaders of the group, in an airstrike. Israeli warplanes “killed the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon, Mohammad Ali Ismail, and his deputy,” the army said in a statement, adding that it had “killed other Hezbollah commanders and terrorists.” Given”.

The statement said Ismail was “responsible for a number of acts of terrorism… including launching rockets into Israeli territory and firing a surface-to-surface missile into the center of the country last Wednesday.” . The Israeli military said it also killed Ibrahim Mohammed Kabisi and “other senior officials in Hezbollah’s missile and rocket array.”

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‘If you beat us, we’ll beat you’

Meanwhile, the United Nations has repeatedly condemned the sharp increase in violence in Lebanon this week. “We are witnessing the deadliest period in Lebanon in a generation, and many fear that this is just the beginning,” said Imran Reza, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon. After a US-led ceasefire failed earlier this week, US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken again called for a ceasefire. “The path to diplomacy seems difficult at the moment, but it exists, and in our judgment, it is necessary,” Blanken said.

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Lebanon’s violence has raised fears of wider unrest in the Middle East, with Iran-backed militants across the region vowing to continue their fight with Israel. Netanyahu took aim at Iran in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, saying: “I have a message for the oppressors of Tehran.” “If you hit us, we’ll hit you.” He added that “there is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel can’t reach, and that’s true for the entire Middle East.”

(with agency information)