Israeli air strikes hit sites in Yemen killing dozens, including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founding members, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut.

The killing of the powerful militant group’s longtime leader sent shockwaves throughout Lebanon and the Middle East, where he has been a dominant political and military figure for more than three decades.

Nasrallah has been on Israel’s kill list for decades. His assassination is by far the biggest and most consequential of Israel’s targeted killings in years. The Israeli military said it carried out a precise airstrike on Friday while Hezbollah leaders were meeting at their headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut.

Immediately after the confirmation from Hezbollah, people starting firing in the air in Beirut and across Lebanon to mourn Nasrallah’s death.

“Wish it was our kids, not you, Sayyid!” said one woman, using an honorific title for Nasrallah, as she clutched her baby in the western city of Baabda.

“We don’t believe he is killed," a woman draped in black, tearfully told al-Manar TV in Bekaa, western Lebanon. "We don’t. We left our homes and came here for him and for the resistance,”

In his first public remarks since the killing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday evening that Israel had no choice but to target Nasrallah.

“At the start of the week, I came to the conclusion that the intense blows the Israeli military struck Hezbollah with, these blows were not enough. Nasrallah’s assassination was an essential condition to achieving the goals we set,” Netanyahu said.

The Lebanese Health Ministry said six people were killed and 91 injured in the strikes, which leveled six apartment buildings. Ali Karki, the commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front and other commanders were also killed, the Israeli military said.

A statement from Hezbollah said Nasrallah — who led the group for more than three decades — “has joined his fellow martyrs.” The group vowed to “continue the holy war against the enemy and in support of Palestine.”

Hezbollah started firing rockets on Israel in support of Gaza on Oct. 8, a day after Hamas militants launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 people and abducting another 250. Since then, the two sides have been engaged in escalating cross-border strikes.

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Why do they keep smacking the biggest bully on the playground like he isn't going to punch your jaw into your skull?

[DOGOFTWOHEAD]

It's TRUE what they say your enemies are just a phone call away

[BoricuaFlavored]

Killing innocents while playing victim forever.

[make-believe]

Stop messing with the Israelis. It's not smart.

[-in-the-meantime...]

Israel's latest offensive...
Operation: Hide Behind the Moderates Kids

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People complain that their food is cold at a restaurant
Meanwhile, innocent people are getting bombed and people just don't know how lucky they are.

[bedhead-tbqg]

Imagine fighting over and killing kids over some land… people cant just live in peace.

[tking]

I thought they warned civilians to leave the area didn't they?

[rekhadevnani]

How many innocent lives are gone still going souuu sad!

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[khrcar]

No why in the world are they attacking “Yemen”…!?!!

When Yemen has nothing to do with any of this !!

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Every single day its another war crime or act of overt genocide.

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إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَالْفَتْحُ 

چون هنگام فتح و فیروزی با یاری خدا فرا

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From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto the great river the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites,
and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Joshua 1: 4.

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