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Israel: The Israeli military announced on Saturday that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a strike on Beirut. Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group, has yet to comment on its leader\u2019s whereabouts or health since the bombing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHassan Nasrallah is dead,\u201d military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani announced on X. Military spokesman Captain David Avraham also confirmed to AFP that the Hezbollah chief had been \u201celiminated\u201d following strikes Friday on the Lebanese capital.<\/p>\n
Israel Defense Forces or IDF also took to X and posted, \u201cHassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
An unnamed source close to Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah group told news agency AFP that contact had been lost since last evening with chief Hassan Nasrallah, after Israel said it had \u201celiminated\u201d him in a strike on the group\u2019s southern Beirut bastion.<\/p>\n
\u201cContact with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been lost since Friday evening,\u201d AFP quoted the source as saying . He, however, did not confirm whether Nasrallah had been killed.<\/p>\n
Attacks on Hezbollah targets by fighter jets on Friday continued into the early hours Saturday after the Israeli Army said it told residents to evacuate three buildings it was targeting.<\/p>\n
Hours before the strikes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations, vowing that Israel\u2019s campaign against Hezbollah would continue \u2014 further dimming hopes for an internationally backed cease-fire. Netanyahu abruptly cut his United States visit short and returned to Israel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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