Aftermath of the Israeli attack in Lebanon that killed Hezbollah’s Nasrallah | Attacks between Israel and Lebanon News

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed, dealing a major blow to the Lebanese group that has been waging cross-border hostilities with Israel for a year.

Hezbollah’s statement on Saturday came shortly after the Israeli military said it had killed Nasrallah in an airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut – a move that could destabilize Lebanon and trigger a regional war.

Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than 30 years, is by far the most powerful person killed by Israel in weeks of intensified fighting with Hezbollah. The Israeli military said it carried out a precision airstrike on Friday evening as Hezbollah’s leadership met at its headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut.

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, six people were killed and 91 injured in the strikes, which leveled six residential buildings. Ali Karki, the commander of Hezbollah’s southern front, and other commanders were also killed, the Israeli military said.

The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian group Hamas condemned Nasrallah’s killing as a “cowardly act of terrorism.”

According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, Israel has shifted the focus of its operation from Gaza to Lebanon, where heavy bombings have killed more than 700 people, after cross-border exchanges escalated last week. Most of the Lebanese deaths occurred on Monday, the deadliest day of violence since the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war.