Hezbollah confirms leader Nasrallah's death


FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. - Photo: REUTERS / Hasan Shaaban / File Photo

BEIRUT (AFP): Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group on Saturday (Sept 28) confirmed its leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed, after Israel said it had "eliminated" him in a strike on south Beirut a day earlier.

"Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of Hezbollah, has joined his great, immortal martyr comrades whom he led for about 30 years," Hezbollah said in a statement.

The statement confirmed he was killed with other group members "following the treacherous Zionist strike on the southern suburbs" of Beirut.

In central Beirut, AFP journalists heard a passer-by screaming, "Oh my God", while women wept in the streets right after Hezbollah announced the news.

Israeli jets pounded Beirut's south and its outskirts throughout the night into Saturday in the most intense attacks on the Hezbollah stronghold since the group and Israel last went to war in 2006.

Meanwhile, Hamas also condemned the killing of Nasrallah after Hezbollah confirmed his death.

"We condemn in the strongest terms this barbaric Zionist aggression and targeting of residential buildings... and we consider it a cowardly terrorist act," the group said in a statement, offering "condolences, and solidarity with the brothers in Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon on the martyrdom of... Nasrallah".- AFP

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