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JohnSJ

(96,653 posts)
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 04:13 AM Sep 28

Israeli military says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in overnight strike on Beirut

Last edited Sat Sep 28, 2024, 09:55 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: BBC

"Summary
The Israel Defense Forces say they killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Friday's strikes on Beirut

Hezbollah has yet to comment

Air strikes continued into Saturday morning in southern Beirut, with a BBC correspondent seeing thick smoke rising over several locations in Dahieh

Elsewhere, the Israeli military says that it is "attacking" targets in the Bekaa Valley this morning after detecting a rocket fired from Lebanon

On Friday, Lebanese officials said six people were killed and 91 injured in an air strike, with local officials saying that nearly 800 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon since Monday"

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c981g8mrl8lt



I suspect we will never know, but the intelligence required to perform such actions, from the pagers, to directly at the Hezbolah and Hamas leadership, had to come from within Lebanon and Iran I would think.

This took an extraordinary amount of planning, and the events of October 7 no doubt started the ball rolling.

For those who cheered the actions of what hamas did on October 7, such as some university professors, and certain activists groups, what did they think Israel would do after the October 7 attack?

There is no doubt that hamas and hezbollah were counting on a major retaliation from Israel, thinking it would unite the surrounding countries against Israel to "drive iit to the sea".

They grossly miscalculated, at the cost of thousands of Palestinian lives.


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Israeli military says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in overnight strike on Beirut (Original Post) JohnSJ Sep 28 OP
Good job! Mysterian Sep 28 #1
Hezbollah has confirmed it muriel_volestrangler Sep 28 #2
Martyred, as per his frequently expressed wishes. Beastly Boy Sep 28 #3
I can only imagine what a Hezbollah leadership meeting is like right now Tarc Sep 28 #4
Indeed. question everything Sep 28 #5

Beastly Boy

(11,200 posts)
3. Martyred, as per his frequently expressed wishes.
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 08:04 AM
Sep 28

"We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs..." - Ghazi Hamad

In celebration of this great achievement, I expect many festivities and expressions of pride from Mr. Hamad, and all across Lebanon, as well as Gaza and in Tehran.

Congratulations, guys.

Tarc

(10,575 posts)
4. I can only imagine what a Hezbollah leadership meeting is like right now
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 09:39 AM
Sep 28

"Who is the next brave leader to step forward!?"

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