The IDF confirms it: Nasrallah was killed in Friday’s airstrike
The underground command center was embedded beneath a residential building, the IDF noted in their report on Saturday, where Nasrallah and his top commanders were coordinating terrorist activities against Israel at the time of the attack.
During Nasrallah’s 32-year leadership of Hezbollah, he was responsible for planning and executing multiple terrorist operations, including attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers, as well as international attacks that killed other nationals worldwide.
He’d been a terrorist for a long, long time.
I read in one of the comments that Israel finally found a way to use the UN for its advantage; that’s a reference to the fact that Netanyahu’s speech at the UN was apparently designed to get Nasrallah to feel safe enough to hold a meeting of this sort.
Many Iranians seem happy:
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has been killed. Arab media say it has not yet been confirmed, and interestingly, just like the deaths of Raisi and Soleimani, the people of Iran are celebrating on social media. Iran, a nation that bears the scars of these terrorists,… pic.twitter.com/kssPrfPf10
— Masih Alinejad ?? (@AlinejadMasih) September 27, 2024
Many Syrians seem happy, too (although one always has to be careful with videos; some are of older events).
And I have little doubt that some Lebanese people, especially Christians, are in a celebratory mood too – although I’m not sure whether they feel the freedom to express it openly.
We don't know yet whether Nasrallah was eliminated by IDF today. But if he was, it can be the best thing that happened in the Middle East in the last decades. It could be the end of Hezbollah, there could be hope for Christians in Lebanon to get back their beautiful country, and… pic.twitter.com/9JZ4axTFjn
— lelemSLP (@lelemSLP) September 27, 2024
A monstrous killer who met his due. He destroyed Lebanon and tried to destroy Israel.
I have been thinking that Israel must have had a backchannel conversation with the government of Lebanon to make sure that they wouldn’t object–other than perhaps public posturing. Apparently they wanted Nasrallah gone almost as much as Israel did.
Lebanon was good and wrecked ‘ere Hezbollah was ever formed. He certainly was not a salutary influence there or anywhere else. There’s a rival Shi’ite militia in Lebanon which antedates it. They’ll benefit if Hezbollah is crippled.
@Art Deco, maybe that rival militia will think twice about attacking Israel (even if they get Iranian support). As for Lebanon, I think a lot of Christians have left. I agree there’s not much hope for a return to its glory days when Beirut was the “Paris of the Middle East.”
I agree there’s not much hope for a return to its glory days when Beirut was the “Paris of the Middle East.”
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During the period running from 1950 to 1974, the ratio of Lebanon’s per capita product to that of the United States bounced around 0.32. From 2006 to 2018 it bounced around 0.24. During the period running form 1975 to 2005, it bounced around 0.16. It wouldn’t surprise me if they climbed back to their former baseline.