The Israeli military announced Hassan Nasrallah was eliminated in an airstrike at Central Headquarters of the Hezbollah in Beirut. The strikes targeted strategic locations in the city, resulting in six confirmed deaths and extensive damage. Israel claimed to have taken out key Hezbollah figures and weapons depots, while Hezbollah retaliated with rocket fire.
Netanyahu termed Nasrallah’s death as a critical achievement in Israel’s military strategy against Hezbollah. This, he said, will help him restore security along Israel’s northern borders.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS Netanyahu Saturday confirmed that he personally authorised the operation to eliminate Nasrallah. | Netanyahu termed Nasrallah’s death as a critical achievement in Israel’s military strategy against Hezbollah. | Netanyahu said his country will retaliate if Tehran makes any attempt to strike against the Jewish state. |
“There is no place in Iran or the Middle East that the long arm of Israel will not reach,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his big warning for Tehran following the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in airstrikes in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Thursday.
Addressing his country, Netanyahu Saturday confirmed that he personally authorised the operation to eliminate the Hezbollah leader in Beirut. The 64-year-old Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli air raid at Hezbollah’s headquarters in the Lebanese city. “The strike was conducted while Hezbollah’s senior chain of command were operating from the headquarters and advancing terrorist activities against the citizens of the State of Israel,” the IDF said confirming Nasrallah’s death.
Issuing a big warning to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Netanyahu said his country will retaliate if Tehran makes any attempt to strike against the Jewish state. “I say to the Ayatollah’s regime: whoever beat us, we will beat them.”
Netanyahu termed Nasrallah’s death as a critical achievement in Israel’s military strategy against Hezbollah. This, he said, will help him restore security along Israel’s northern borders.
64-year-old Nasrallah had been responsible for orchestrating numerous attacks on Israelis and foreign nationals, including high-profile bombings in the 1980s, he said.
“By killing Nasarallah we settled accounts with those responsible for the murder of countless Israelis and many citizens of other countries, including hundreds of Americans and dozens of Frenchmen,” he said.
The Israeli Prime Minister pointed to the elimination of Nasrallah would help his country accelerate the return of northern Israeli residents who had fled due to cross-border fire and further weaken Hamas, Hezbollah’s ally in Gaza.
Concluding his message, Netanyahu called this period a “historic turning point” and reaffirmed his commitment to “continue to strike at our enemies, return our residents to their homes, and return all our abductees”. “We do not forget them for a moment,” he said.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Shifted To Secured Location
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been shifted to a secured location after Israel eliminated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, sources said. The news of Nasrallah’s death was confirmed by Israeli military on Saturday.
“Iran’s Supreme Commander was shifted to a secured location overnight,” the source said.
The move to safeguard Iran’s top decision-maker was seen as a show of nervousness by the Iranian authorities as Israel launched a series of devastating attacks on Hezbollah, Iran’s best armed and most well-equipped ally in the region.
The Iranian leader has vowed to avenge the killing by Israel of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. “The blood of the martyr shall not go unavenged,” Khamenei said in the statement, in which he announced five days of mourning to mark Nasrallah’s death.
On behalf of the millions of Lebanese Christians around the world, THANK YOU Israel!
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) September 28, 2024
If we want peace between Lebanon and Israel, Hezbollah must be completely destroyed! pic.twitter.com/80mbiJxcYc