Hezbollah chief killed in Israeli strike, most powerful target so far

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Lebanons Hezbollah group confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founders, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut the previous day...

Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, is by far the most powerful target to be killed by Israel in weeks of intensified fighting with Hezbollah..

The Israeli military said it carried out a precise airstrike on Friday while Hezbollah leadership were meeting at their headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut...

Ali Karki, the commander of Hezbollahs Southern Front and other commanders were also killed, the Israeli military said.. Iran announced on Saturday that a prominent general in its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard sanctioned by the US died in the same airstrike..

History has proven that the resistance... whenever its leaders die as martyrs, will be succeeded on the same path by a generation of leaders who are more valiant, stronger and more determined to continue the confrontation, the Hamas statement said...

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