Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has become the latest high-value target Israel has killed after weeks of intense fighting with Hezbollah. Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is the biggest blow yet to the Lebanese militant group in months of fighting, according to AP.
Currently, Hezbollah has not commented on information related to leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The Israeli military said that, along with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a number of senior Hezbollah commanders were killed in a powerful airstrike on September 27.
Israel carried out a precision airstrike while Hezbollah's leadership was meeting at the group's headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut.
Israeli Defense Minister Herzi Halevi said on September 28 that the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was not the end. He added that the Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah's leadership was the result of a long period of preparation. Among the senior Hezbollah commanders killed was Ali Karki, the commander of the force's Southern Front.
Six people were killed and 91 injured in Israeli airstrikes on September 27, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported. The airstrikes flattened six apartment buildings.
Smoke rose high and streets were deserted in Beirut's southern suburbs after heavy airstrikes overnight. Shelters set up in the city center to house displaced people were overflowing, with families sleeping in public squares and on beaches or in cars.
At least 720 people have died in the country in the past week due to Israeli airstrikes, according to Lebanon's Ministry of Health.
The Israeli military is calling up more reservists as tensions escalate with Lebanon, activating three reserve battalions after sending two brigades to northern Israel earlier this week to train for a possible ground offensive, AP reported.
On the morning of September 28, the Israeli military carried out several airstrikes south of Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon. Hezbollah fired dozens of artillery shells into northern and central Israel as well as the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
