Sharjah 24 – AFP: Hezbollah announced Saturday that its Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut a day earlier.
This came in a statement issued by the party and broadcast by the Lebanese National News Agency.
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.
Nasrallah had rarely been seen in public since 2006.
He was elected secretary general of Hezbollah in 1992, aged 32, after an Israeli helicopter gunship killed his predecessor Abbas al-Musawi.
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