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The glorious path of the leader of the resistance, Hassan Nasrallah, will continue and his sacred goal will be realised in the liberation of Quds (Jerusalem), God willing,
foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a post on social media X, mourning Nasrallah's death Nasrallah was one of the greatest enemies of the State of Israel of all time... his elimination makes the world a safer place,
Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised statement on Saturday Our history, our guns and our rockets are with you,
At a recent event in Dahiyeh, Hezbollah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs, he declared ... in a show of solidarity with Palestinian fighters Hezbollah giving up its weapons … would leave Lebanon exposed before Israel.”
Nasrallah repeatedly turned down calls for his group’s disarmament, saying The deep entanglement between Lebanon and Hezbollah is now being tested and interrogated by those who have long opposed Hezbollah
Dr Burcu Ozcelik, Senior Research Fellow for Middle East Security at the Royal United Services Institute defence and security think tank (RUSI), added His eminence, the righteous servant, has passed away to be with his Lord who is pleased with him as a great martyr."
We have been looking for solutions, looking for a change in reality that will bring our civilians home,
referring to the approximately 60,000 Israelis who have been evacuated from their homes along the Lebanese border for almost a year This isn’t a threat that has gone away,
We hope this will change Hezbollah’s actions,
This doesn’t mean that Hezbollah is destroyed, because Hezbollah is made up tens of thousands of people,
We have prepared for the fleets with which you threaten us."
As regional tensions escalated after the eruption of the Gaza war, Nasrallah issued a thinly veiled warning to U.S. warships in the Mediterranean, telling them Don’t bet on a war against Iran because they will destroy you,
he said in a message directed at Riyadh We are here paying the price for our front of support for Gaza, and for the Palestinian people, and our adoption of the Palestinian cause,
Nasrallah said in the August 1 speech We are facing a great battle,
Nasrallah said in an August 1 speech at the funeral of Hezbollah's top military commander, Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli strike on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut In the absence of removing Hezbollah’s military capabilities, or at least promising to contain Hezbollah, I doubt Israel can be reined in by the U.S. government,
There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach,
Better to succeed using new technology and tactics and avoid old rules of invasion because that is a tried and tested method of failure in Lebanon based on previous attempts,
A new leader will have to be acceptable within the organization in Lebanon but also to its backers in Iran."
According to Philip Smyth, an expert on Shi’ite armed groups Hassan Nasrallah is dead.”
The news was initially broken by the military spokesperson Lt Col Nadav Shoshani in a brief post on X saying Following precise intelligence from the IDF and the Israeli security establishment, IAF [Israeli air force] fighter jets conducted a targeted strike on the central headquarters of the Hezbollah terrorist organization which was located underground, embedded under a residential building in the Dahieh area of Beirut,