Israel has claimed that it has killed a top intelligence commander of Hezbollah Air strike in southern suburb of Beirut On Saturday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Hassan Khalil Yassin led a unit in Hezbollah’s intelligence department that was tasked with detecting Israeli military and civilian sites to be targeted in Israel.
The military claimed that Yassin had worked closely with Hezbollah missile and drone units and that he was “personally” involved in terrorist plots carried out against civilians and soldiers since the beginning of the war and that he had in the coming days But additional attacks were also planned. , News of their elimination by Israel came hours after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut.
The IDF confirmed the news of his death in the attacks, saying, “Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world.”
Protests began in Iran after the news of Nasrallah’s death. Protesters carried photographs of the slain Hezbollah leader and chanted slogans such as “Revenge,” “Down with Israel,” and “Down with America.” Iran has also called for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council amid Hezbollah’s dramatically escalating tensions with Israel. Lebanon declared three days of mourning following Nasrallah’s death.
As Israel announced Nasrallah’s killing, sirens were sounded in many parts of the Jewish state. A shell fired by Lebanon crashed into the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but no injuries were reported. Air raid sirens also sounded on the outskirts of Jerusalem, which the Israeli military said was triggered by “a launch from Lebanon towards Israeli territory”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described his killing as a “historic turning point” and claimed the country had “settled its score” with a mass murderer responsible for the murders of “countless Israelis” and several American and French citizens.
Specifically, the Lebanese Health Ministry said that 33 people were killed and 195 others were injured in Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Saturday. More than 1,000 people have been killed and more than 6,000 injured as a result of Israeli attacks over the past two weeks, and approximately one million Lebanese have been displaced due to the attacks.