Israel’s navy hit Hizbollah’s “major command centre” in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday in a strike focused on Hassan Nasrallah, the organization’s leader, inside the maximum intense bombardment of Lebanon’s capital because the start of its offensive.
The strike on Beirut got here after prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a defiant speech on the UN that Israel “need to defeat” the Lebanese militant organization despite growing global pressure for a ceasefire.
The Israeli military said it had struck Hizbollah’s headquarters positioned beneath residential buildings. two humans familiar with the situation stated the strike had targeted Nasrallah.
there has been no reliable confirmation from Hizbollah about whether Nasrallah survived the assault — or turned into in Beirut whilst it came about.
Early on Saturday, Israel and Hizbollah exchanged rocket hearth and Israeli warplanes struck the Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh, a place managed via Hizbollah with a excessive civilian population.